Golden Dome Missile Defense Trump Musk Joint $550 Billion North Korea ‘Specified’

Golden Dome Missile Defense Trump Musk Joint $550 Billion North Korea ‘Specified’

 

US President Trump designated China and North Korea as ‘missiles from the other side of the world’ in the construction of the Golden Dome missile defense shield that includes space operations, and announced that he would strengthen the military buildup in South Korea.

When President Trump announced the Golden Dome missile defense shield plan on the 20th, he indirectly mentioned China and North Korea as the target countries by saying, “Once completed, the Golden Dome will be able to intercept missiles launched from the other side of the world or from space.”

In a statement from the Oval Office, White House Press Secretary Gatlin said, “While the United States is focused on peace overseas, adversaries are modernizing their nuclear forces and building ballistic capabilities,” making North Korea and China the justification for building the Golden Dome through ‘the other side of the world’ and ‘nuclear ballistic missiles.’ 

The Golden Dome strategy is based on a classified assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency titled Golden Dome for America: Current and Future Missile Threats to the U.S. Homeland, which found that countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are evolving threats to the United States.

The classified project consists of five parts: Boosted Hypersonic Weapon, Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), Land Attack Cruise Missile, Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), and Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS).

The classified project came out last week, and the New York Times, which first published it, reported on the 20th that “the graphic depicts a variety of types of intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, land-attack cruise missiles, and hypersonic weapons that can reach speeds of more than five times the speed of sound.” 

The Trump administration announced from the beginning of its launch that it would “recognize North Korea as a nuclear state” and used the $500 billion “early construction of the Golden Dome” as a pretext for its strategic approach, and through this, designated South Korea as the center of its military buildup and defense spending increase.

In the 1980s, the Reagan administration spent billions of dollars to build a defense system against nuclear attacks known as “Star Wars,” a “missile early air defense system in the Soviet Far East that can be destroyed immediately upon launch” in Alaska against nuclear missiles from the Soviet Union, but this plan ultimately failed due to technical and budgetary issues.

In order to build this strategy, the Reagan administration amplified the threat of a nuclear war with the Soviet Union through the media, and with a huge undisclosed budget and covert strategy, the military buildup accelerated without congressional checks and balances due to the closeness of the strategic group and the defense industry, and Reaganomics ended with a huge financial deficit.

The New York Times reported on the 20th that “American officials say the Golden Dome is necessary to protect against a ‘catastrophic attack,’ but experts say it faces logistical and financial hurdles,” and that “President Trump has said the project will cost $175 billion, but the Congressional Budget Office says it will cost much more, at $542 billion.”

The military buildup costs that exceed the Trump administration’s budget authority are likely to target South Korea and Japan.

In his announcement that day, President Trump said, “I am confident that the United States can complete this project in about three years and that it will be fully operational before the end of my term,” adding, “It is as close to perfection as we can get in terms of actual production.”

The announcement was made directly to reporters in the Oval Office, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who accompanied President Trump, called the project a “game changer” and “a generational investment in America and its security.” President Trump then announced that General Michael Guetlein, the deputy commander of space operations for the Space Force, would oversee the project.

In his New York Times op-ed, “The Reality of Trump’s Golden Dome,” columnist W.J. Hennigan wrote that “American defense contractors and rocket companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, are already strategizing how to win the contract competition to build the system,” adding that “the U.S. government has poured about $300 billion into missile defense systems over the past 40 years.” 

Hannigan said of Golden Dome, “Underneath Golden Dome, we will need next-generation radars, sensors, interceptors, and related systems to detect, track, and destroy enemy missiles before they strike.” “Golden Dome will not be a single program, but will consist of more than 100 programs that will be stitched together to form a coastal, border-to-border defense against air attack, so once these components are built, the military will need a way to coordinate all of this through a command and control system.” 

The first executive order issued by President Trump shortly after his inauguration on January 17, titled “Iron Dome for America,” reads: “Section 1. Purpose. The threat of ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles, and other advanced air attacks remains the most lethal threat facing the United States.” and “Section 2. Policy. 

 

To advance the goal of peace through strength, the U.S. policy stated that (a) the United States will provide for the common defense of its people and nation by deploying and maintaining a next-generation missile defense shield, (b) the United States will deter foreign air attacks on the homeland and defend its people and critical infrastructure, and (c) the United States will ensure a secure second-strike capability.

Regarding the Trump administration’s biggest issue, the military buildup strategy of “replicating” Israel’s Iron Dome system in the United States, Hannigan’s column pointed out the error due to the large gap, saying, “Israel is the size of New Jersey, and missiles fired at Israel are often just slow-moving, unguided projectiles fired nearby.”

The New York Times White House correspondent said, “The United States is more than 400 times larger than Israel,” and “the physics of defending the vast territory of the United States from incoming intercontinental missiles are much more complex than protecting Israel from the small-scale rocket attacks it faces.”

In his January 28 column, Hannigan wrote, “It is cheaper, faster, and easier to build missiles and attack systems than to design complex shields to neutralize them.” He added, “Developing radars, sensors, interceptors, and related systems to detect, track, and engage flying missiles is a difficult task, and hitting a ballistic missile is even more complicated because it travels at over 14,000 miles per hour. The military’s most frequently used metaphor for shooting down an ICBM with an interceptor is “shooting a bullet with a bullet.” 

He continued, “The United States has spent about $300 billion on various missile defense systems over the past 40 years, and the military has had remarkable success developing short- and medium-range defense systems that can defend troops on the battlefield or at sea, but when it comes to homeland defense, the United States has yet to develop anything reliable.” 

Administration officials told the Times that the Pentagon named the Golden Dome “to pay homage to the president’s favorite color and metal,” adding that Trump’s project would be a next-generation military system designed to defend against a variety of ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles that have been successfully deployed by adversaries such as Russia.

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