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Did you know North Korea has nuclear weapons? Then you’re one up on John Kerry

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Well, he probably knows they do now. But he didn’t when ABC’s Martha Raddatz interviewed him for This Week. Which happened, confusingly enough, last week.

Emphasis mine:

“Um, this is the nature of this ruthless, horrendous dictatorship and of his insecurities.  And — and I think we — we need to factor that into the urgency of getting China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, all of us, uh, to stay on the same page and to put as much effort into the denuclearization as possible.  To have a nuclear weapon, potentially, in the hands of somebody like Kim Jong In — Jun — just becomes even more unacceptable.”

Either Raddatz doesn’t know North Korea has nukes already — not “potentially,” but right freaking now — or she just didn’t want to embarrass Kerry. Given the job she did as moderator during the Biden/Ryan debate, either possibility is equally likely.

(Hat tip: Michael Warren)

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