South Korea will land a spacecraft on the moon in the next decade and Mars by 2045, President Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday, as part of the country’s new “Future Space Economy Roadmap” that also aims to strengthen space security amid North Korea’s long-range missile tests.

The roadmap also includes the establishment of a new aerospace administration agency similar to NASA and includes six primary policy initiatives.

The first focuses on the exploration of the moon and Mars. Yoon said that within five years South Korea will develop an indigenous rocket engine capable of reaching the former, and that the latter