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The U.S. has more nuclear reactors than China.

Recognizing North Korea as a nuclear state would be a dramatic shift in U.S. policy, which for decades has aimed to persuade Pyongyang to dismantle its arsenal with a mix of economic and diplomatic pressure.

But talks eventually collapsed over just how much of its nuclear arsenal the North was willing to give up and what Pyongyang would get in return.

The move came after months of tense diplomacy aimed at reviving nuclear talks derailed since June, when Israeli and US forces bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.

He was speaking with Tucker Carlson, who claimed that “a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths” and “could very easily become a world war.”