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KCNA on U.S. Dangerous Moves for Arms Race in Space

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

   Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- The U.S. launched a missile to shoot down a spy satellite in the Northern Pacific on Feb. 20 defying the protest and denunciation from the international community.
    This was done in the form of a general exercise staged by warships equipped with the specially improved interceptor missiles and the commanding system controlled by radars and computers under the U.S. Strategic Command, according to foreign press reports.
    Foreign observers commented that it was a test for actual battle aimed at establishing a missile defense system (MD) as it marked an important occasion in rounding off a phase for developing the MD and flatly refuted the U.S. assertion about the reason behind its shooting down of the satellite.
    What the U.S. claimed as a reason was that its spy satellite launched in December, 2006 was in such shape that it could hardly be remote-controlled from the earth and it might fall on the earth in the first week of March and it was, therefore, necessary to shoot down the satellite loaded with toxic fuel so that it might not fall down on a densely populated area.
    The U.S. asserted that the satellite shooting down was neither a weapon test to intercept other countries' satellites nor a demonstration of force against potential hostile countries.
    It was the unanimous view of the experts that although the satellite loaded with toxic fuel might be shot down as asserted by the U.S., its toxic substance might seriously contaminate the air.
    As a matter of fact, the aim sought by the U.S. in shooting down the satellite is to restore the "Star Wars" initiative in the 1980s in a bid to contain China and Russia and other countries and hold military supremacy in the space.
    No wonder, the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Feb. 16 said that the shooting down of the spy satellite was obviously designed to test a new type strategic weapon.
    As known, the U.S. conducted a test of intercepting a satellite in 1985 by launching a missile from a fighter and has squandered a huge amount of fund on the development of space weapons for the last several decades.
    In the wake of China's test of intercepting a satellite in January last year, the U.S. used this as a pretext for justifying its development of space weapons and accelerated its moves for the space militarization.
    At the recent UN Disarmament Conference the U.S. stubbornly rejected the draft treaty on banning the deployment of weapons in the space proposed by China and Russia.
    The U.S. in its "national policy on space" made public in October 2006 declared that it rejects the discussion on any agreement which may limit the advance into and use of space by the U.S. and objects to any form of arms reduction agreement.
    It is crystal clear that these adventurous moves of the U.S. would reduce the international treaty on the peaceful use of the space to a dead document and spark off an arms race in the space as they were prompted by its unchanged way of thinking dating back to the Cold War era.
    All these facts clearly prove once again that the U.S. is a harasser of world peace and stability.