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U.S. Chided for Escalating Arms Race

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, October 30 (KCNA) -- The new "national space policy" of the Bush administration aimed at monopolizing and militarizing outer space is nothing but a dangerous attempt to revive the criminal "star wars plan," observes Rodong Sinmun Monday in a signed commentary. It goes on:
    The U.S. design to use outer space, which should be used for a peaceful purpose common to mankind, as a theatre of war is a criminal one as it threatens the very existence of humankind and obstructs the development of civilization.
    The U.S. imperialists' space weapon test is aimed at rounding off the missile complex capable of destroying other countries' satellites on orbit and space stations and the missile defense system (MD). In other words, it is designed to set up around the earth a system for destroying missiles to be fired by other countries by use of space weapons. What merits a more serious attention is that this move sparks off a fresh arms race worldwide. The U.S. reckless moves to militarize outer space are the root cause of a global arms race.
    The deployment of sophisticated weapons in outer space may entail unpredictable consequences.
    The above-said U.S. moves are absolutely intolerable as they are grave criminal acts to turn the peaceful outer space into a theatre of dangerous arms race and war and bring the danger of a new Cold War, a thermal nuclear war and thus put the very existence and security of mankind at peril.
    No specified country should be allowed to monopolize outer space. Mankind should never allow any country to use space as a military base and theatre for attacking other countries.
    The U.S. would be well advised to drop at once its criminal design to militarize outer space and use it for its purposes of aggression and war in violation of international law on the peaceful use of outer space.