North Korea, much like China and Russia in recent weeks, issued a scathing rebuke on Tuesday of President Donald Trump‘s pursuit of his Golden Dome missile defense system.

Trump has made the Golden Dome — a comprehensive air defense system that, once operational, will be able to intercept various missiles fired from land, sea, and space — a signature of his military policy early in his second term in office.

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North Korea‘s foreign ministry said that Trump’s plan is the “height of self-righteousness, arrogance, high-handed and arbitrary practice, and is an outer space nuclear war scenario supporting the U.S. strategy for uni-polar domination with the preemptive establishment of the outer space-based military substructure, not a ‘defensive measure’ to cope with the ‘threat’ from someone.”

The ministry accused the U.S. of being “hell-bent on the moves to military outer space,” while claiming that the plan for the Golden Dome, as outlined by the Trump administration, “is also the expression of another attempt to militarize outer space coming from the past strategies for dominating outer space and the epitome of revealing the criminal past of the U.S. which plunged the whole world into the nightmare of the outbreak of a nuclear war.”

The president announced last week that he expects the project to cost about $175 billion and be operational before his tenure ends in January 2029. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cost of the Golden Dome over the next twenty years could eclipse half a trillion dollars.

Trump named Gen. Michael Guetlein, the second-highest-ranking Space Force officer, to lead Golden Dome’s development.

The Golden Dome will rely on space sensors, data fusion centers, and communication capabilities, according to Gen. Chance Saltzman, the head of Space Force, who referred to it as a “system of systems.”

Both Moscow and Beijing have also criticized the Trump administration’s pursuit of the Golden Dome, even though the system, as described by the president and military leaders, is a group of systems designed to intercept missiles of all kinds launched toward the U.S. homeland.

Russian and Chinese leaders, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, called it “deeply destabilizing in nature” earlier this month during Xi’s trip to Moscow.

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Russia, China, and North Korea all possess intercontinental ballistic missiles with the range to hit anywhere in the U.S. homeland, and each military is expected to increase its stockpiles over the next decade, according to information published earlier this month by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. North Korea has conducted several tests of these and other weapons systems in recent years.

The Chinese military currently has about 400 ICBMs, which can be armed with a nuclear warhead. Russia has about 350, and North Korea has about 10. By 2035, though, China is expected to have about 700, Russia could have 400, and both North Korea and Iran could each have between 50 and 60 of them.