Russia, China, North Korea condemn Trump's $175 billion Golden Dome missile shield

The U.S.’s main adversaries, Russia, North Korea and China, each of which are nuclear-armed nations, person condemned President Donald Trump’s space-based antiaircraft program helium dubbed the "Golden Dome" arsenic "dangerous" and a menace to planetary stability. 

The president discussed his $175 cardinal plan, which volition usage satellites and different technologies to observe and intercept a rocket onslaught "even if they are launched from different sides of the world," Trump said past week.

The antiaircraft plan, though it is believed to beryllium years away earlier being afloat operational contempt Trump’s three-year extremity mark, sparked stiff backlash from the U.S.’s apical competitors, who took nonstop purpose astatine what they called Trump’s "arrogance."

U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement regarding the Golden Dome rocket defence shield adjacent to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., May 20, 2025. 

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North Korea’s overseas ministry, whose person shared an uncommonly cordial relationship with Trump during his archetypal term, called it the equivalent of an "outer abstraction atomic warfare scenario" that supports the administration’s strategy for "uni-polar domination."

According to section media outlets, the ministry connected Tuesday said it was a "typical merchandise of ‘America first’, the tallness of self-righteousness, arrogance, high-handed and arbitrary practice."

The White House did not instantly respond to Fox News’ Digital’s questions regarding the reactions to the plan, intended to lucifer Israel’s "Iron Dome" antiaircraft capability.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping speech documents during a signing ceremonial pursuing their talks astatine the Kremlin successful Moscow connected May 8, 2025.  (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

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But the North Korean overseas ministry claimed the antiaircraft strategy was really an "attempt to militarize outer space" and "preemptively attain subject superiority successful an all-round way."

Similarly, connected Tuesday, Russian overseas curate Maria Zakharova said the strategy would undermine the ground of strategical stableness by creating a global rocket defence system, reported Reuters. 

But her comments were not the archetypal clip Moscow aligned its condemnation of the "Golden Dome" arsenic it issued a associated connection with China earlier this period aft Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for formal talks successful Russia.

The duo called the program "deeply destabilizing" and claimed it erodes the "inseparable interrelationship betwixt strategical violative arms and strategic antiaircraft arms."

They besides argued that it would crook "outer abstraction into an environment for placing weapons and an arena for armed confrontation."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during an lawsuit with President Donald Trump successful the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, successful Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)

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Russia has remained comparatively muted successful its effect pursuing Trump’s Oval Office treatment connected the Golden Dome, which came conscionable 2 days aft Trump held a two-hour telephone call with Putin. 

But China reiterated its objection to the plan, and pursuing Trump’s announcement connected it, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said past week, "The task volition heighten the hazard of turning abstraction into a warfare portion and creating a abstraction arms race, and shingle the planetary information and arms power system."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has rejected the claims that the program could beryllium viewed arsenic an "offensive" strategy and told Fox News Digital, "All we attraction astir is protecting the homeland."

Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.