The U.S. must recalibrate its diplomatic strategy in response to an evolving global landscape that includes “a nuclear-armed North Korea,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday, following similar remarks by Trump administration officials about the DPRK’s nuclear status.

Rubio made the remark in a media interview in which he made the case for rethinking American foreign policy priorities in the “new world that’s taking shape,” according to a transcript released by his office.

“We live in a world with a nuclear-armed North Korea,” Rubio said, placing Pyongyang among a list of major global threats alongside China, Iran and