Over the weekend, Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George W. Bush and Barack Obama, appeared on ABC’s This Week to voice what we’re all afraid of. “We’re actually closer, in my view, to a nuclear war with North Korea and in that region than we have ever been,” he said.

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