North Korea shrugged off the importance...

Russia and the United States, which possess about 90% of global arsenals of nuclear weapons, signed the treaty to reduce the number of nuclear warheads to 1,550 on each side and the number of deployed and non-deployed delivery vehicles to 800 on each side in Prague on April 8.

"Today, after a long time since the end of the Cold War, it can be said that there is no real sense in nuclear weapons reduction if one looks at the new situation when the danger of a world nuclear war has been diminished," the Tokyo-based Korean Choson Sinbo newspaper website cited Rodong Sinmun as reporting.

"The only thing that is noteworthy in the treaty is that it shows the possibility of a definite reduction in nuclear arms on conditions of mutual trust and not on conditions of adversary relations," Rodong Sinmun reported.

"Even if Russia and the U.S. fulfill the terms of the treaty, they will still retain a great nuclear advantage over other countries that also have nuclear weapons,"

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