UNITED NATIONS — North Korea’s U.N. ambassador said Wednesday that U.S. modernization of its nuclear weapons and expansion of its missile defense systems will eventually spark a new nuclear arms race.
Sin Son Ho told a General Assembly meeting on revitalizing the Conference on Disarmament, which North Korea chairs this month, that if “the largest nuclear weapon state” — a reference to the United States — wants to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, “it should show its good example by negotiating the Treaty of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons.”
His remarks came on the eve of talks between U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan in New York today and Friday on the possibility of reviving disarmament talks.
