SpaceWar.com reports: “North Korea slammed on Tuesday US President Donald Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield plan as a ‘very dangerous’ threat that could spark nuclear war in space, state media said.

Trump announced new details and initial funding for the missile shield system last week, calling it ‘very important for the success and even survival of our country’.

The initiative faces significant technical and political challenges, according to analysts, and could come at a hefty price tag.

In a statement shared by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang’s foreign ministry slammed the ‘very dangerous ‘threatening initiative’ aimed at threatening the strategic security of the nuclear weapons states’.

The United States is ‘hell-bent on the moves to militarize outer space,’ the foreign ministry said.

‘The US plan for building a new missile defense system is the root cause of sparking off global nuclear and space arms race by stimulating the security concerns of nuclear weapons states and turning… outer space into a potential nuclear war field,’ it added…”