A spokesman for the National Aerospace Technology Administration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, released the following press statement “US hegemonic attempt to militarize outer space into war theatre is principal threat to global peace and security” on April 27 :

The US has gone so far in its hegemonic attempt as to deprive independent sovereign states of their rights to space exploration and militarize outer space and turn the common wealth of humankind into a war theatre.

The commander of the US Space Force during his recent visits to the puppet ROK and Japan said that he urges north Korea to refrain from launching space projectiles or missiles as such action constitutes a “violation of UN resolution.”

We vehemently denounce and reject this, expressing serious concern over such hegemonic attempt of the US as categorically denying the DPRK’s just right to space development and legitimate right to self-defence and using outer space as a military means to deter other countries.

The US, the biggest spy satellite possessor in the world, has conducted interceptor weapon system tests for destroying foreign artificial satellites more than any others. Worse still, it finds fault with the DPRK over its legitimate right to military reconnaissance satellite launch. The irony is that it brought up a draft resolution on banning space nuclear weaponry deployment at the UNSC. This is, indeed, a preposterous and impudent act based on double standards.

Shortly ago, the US conducted the seventh launch of unmanned space vehicle X-37B with a mission to destroy satellites of an “enemy state” in outer space and staged Global cc, a joint space drill simulating war in outer space, with its vassal countries. This clearly proves who the arch criminal of militarizing outer space is.

The most typical example of extremely dangerous US space militarization is found on the Korean peninsula region.

In April alone, the US offered a space vehicle to the puppet ROK to launch its second spy satellite aimed at securing the capability for a preemptive strike on the DPRK. From April 12 to 26, it conducted with the puppet ROK a joint space operation drill which is aimed at mounting “precision strikes” at military bases of the DPRK on the basis of real-time information collected by the US Space Force through spy satellites.

Due to the US reckless and risky space militarization, the strategic balance may collapse any moment to give rise to actual wars among regional countries in the Asia-Pacific region including the Korean peninsula, and such possibility is ever-increasing.

The hegemonic attempt of the US to militarize outer space and turn it into a war theatre is a principal threat to global peace and security at present.

Given that the US is bringing its space forces massively to the Korean peninsula and its vicinity to speed up its space militarization whose ultimate goal is the preemptive nuclear attack, the space development project, including military satellite launch, is a strategic choice indispensable for guaranteeing the DPRK’s security, interests and right to existence.

The NATA of the DPRK will invariably carry on its important duty as planned, to strictly monitor and grasp the ever-escalating military manoeuvres and aggression attempts of the US and other hostile forces in outer space and all other spheres and to enhance the space reconnaissance capabilities for creditably ensuring the national security.