John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, said of Hegseth's remarks on North Korea's status as a nuclear power: "We've not made such a recognition. I can't speak to what the incoming team will—how they'll characterize it. We've not gone so far as to make that recognition."

Zelensky said Ukrainian authorities were still talking with captured North Korean soldiers and "establishing the facts." "The world will learn the full truth about how Russia is e