U.S.-China space station competition for supremacy: Seok-Yeol Yoon, ‘a strong country in the Korea-US space alliance’

“Rapid developments in Chinese military capabilities are increasing the risk to US supremacy in outer space,” said the head of the U.S. Space Flight Corps, referring to China's launch of a replacement spacecraft in the final phase of construction of the space station on Tuesday.

On the 28th, President Yoon Seok-yeol announced the “future space economy roadmap” at the “future space economy roadmap proclamation ceremony,” saying, “We will land on the moon in 2032 and start mining resources, and land on Mars in 2045, the 100th anniversary of liberation.”

"China has made significant progress in developing military space technology, including in areas such as satellite communications and reusable space vehicles, which will enable countries to rapidly expand their space programs," said US Space Force Chief of Staff Nina Armaño on the 28th. China and Russia have carried out 'reckless' missile tests in recent years that have created dangerous amounts of space junk," the Australian Institute for Strategic Policy told Reuters.
"This debris field threatens all of our systems in space, and these systems are essential to the security, economic and scientific interests of all countries," Armaño said.
China's manned space agency quoted an official as saying that the Shenzhou-15 mission, scheduled to launch at 11:00 p.m. on the 30th from the Gobi Desert, will be "the last phase of the construction of the Chinese space station" for a six-month mission with a crew of three under the command of Captain Pei Junrong. The Associated Press reported on the 28th.
"The station's third and final module was docked with the station earlier this month, one of the final steps in a more than 10-year effort to maintain a sustained manned presence in orbit," agency director Ji Qiming told reporters today.
The Tiangong space station, which marks the 30th anniversary of China's manned space program, can accommodate six astronauts at a time, and previous missions to the space station took about 13 hours from take-off to docking.
China plans to launch the Xuntian space telescope next year, which could orbit in sequence with the space station Tengoong and the station and dock from time to time for maintenance, the AP said.
The astronauts to be launched will interact on the space station with a previous crew member who arrived for a six-month stay in early June.
China's permanent station weighs about 66 tons and is part of the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and weighs about 465 tons. could be the only space station still operating in the world, the AP said.
The Associated Press continued, "The program is run by the People's Liberation Army, the military arm of the ruling Communist Party, and proceeded almost entirely systematically and without external support." revealed
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has established Space Force component commands, and the Indo-Pacific Command operates space forces in five commands: Pacific Marine Corps Command, Pacific Fleet Command, Pacific Army Command, Pacific Air Force Command, and component forces command.
“The Pacific theater is the most important theater where four of the five major security threats to the United States – China, Russia, North Korea, and violent extremists – are concentrated,” John Aquilino, commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said at the inauguration ceremony of the Space Force Component Command held in Honolulu, Hawaii on the 22nd. said the Voice of America (VOA) reported on the 26th.
Yonhap News Agency reported on the 26th through multiple government sources that the US Department of Defense will establish a component command for the USFK and USSF will be organized by the end of the year.
As for building China's space capabilities, the Pentagon's strategy "in addition to expanding conventional forces, rapidly develops and integrates space, space countermeasures, cyber, electronic and information warfare capabilities to support a holistic approach to joint warfare," the AP said. .
Citing the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment, the US Congressional Research Service (CRS) said, “North Korea’s continued development of ICBMs, intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) ​​demonstrates North Korea’s intention to strengthen its nuclear capability. VOA reported on the 26th that a recent updated report revealed that “North Korea has test-fired two types of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with ranges capable of striking the US mainland.”