North Korea on Thursday skipped the diplomatic niceties for a combative tone when it took the helm of the Conference on Disarmament (CD). “My country is still at war with the United States,” declared Pyongyang’s ambassador Han Tae-Song. Around 50 countries voiced their outrage that unpredictable nuclear-armed North Korea is being tasked with chairing the world’s foremost multilateral disarmament forum for the next three weeks. North Korea took over the rotating presidency of the Geneva-based CD, according to a decades-old practice among the body’s 65 members following the alphabetical order of…