DPRK says US weapons program will lead to new nuclear arms race

United nations - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) UN ambassador said on Wednesday that US 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 the DPRK 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".

"The total and complete elimination of nuclear weapons remains the consistent policy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," he said.