Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,”  former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said the United States was “closer” to a nuclear war with North Korea than “we’ve ever been.”

Mullen said, “We’re actually closer, in my view, to a nuclear war with North Korea and in that region than we’ve ever been.”

He added, “I don’t see the opportunities how to solve this diplomatically at this particular point.”

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