In a statement reproduced by the ACNC state-run News Agency, the National Directorate of Aerospace Technology pointed out that Washington is intending to turn this common heritage of humanity into a battlefield, while denying other States the right to exploit it peacefully or for defensive purposes.
It was noted that on a recent visit paid to Japan and South Korea, the commander of the U.S. space forces attacked a satellite launched by DPRK and called on the country’s missile tests to be stopped because they are a violation of the UN resolution.
After pointing out that the United States has the largest number of spy satellites in the world and develops a weapons system capable of intercepting and destroying those of other nations, the statement defended the legitimate right of the DPRK to defend itself in that way.
National Directorate recalled that, only in April, the United States launched a satellite to orchestrate a “preventive strike” over DPRK and, with the same purpose, carried out with South Korea the largest air exercises in recent years.
It warned that such “reckless and too dangerous movements” increase the possibilities of a war on the Korean Peninsula and stressed that the National Directorate of Aerospace Technology will do what is necessary to monitor and neutralize any aggression by hostile forces in the outer space and all other areas.
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