The Obama administration in microcosm: North Korea explodes a hydrogen bomb and the State Department's John Kirby insists they're not a nuclear power. In a nutshell:

Reporter: "North Korea has a hydrogen bomb"

Kirby: "We don't recognize them as a nuclear state."

Reporter: "But they have nuclear weapons"

Kirby: "Which in our opinion doesn't make them a nuclear power."

Reporter: It's like when Russia took over Crimea..."

Kirby: We don't believe that Crimea is part of Russia."

Get the idea? So here's the actual reporter / State Department official exchange...

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