By Jethro Mullen CNN The United States will not accept North Korea as a “nuclear state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters Tuesday. Kerry’s comments follow reports that North Korea plan to restart a nuclear reactor that it shut down more than five years ago. “The bottom line is very simple …. It is provocative, dangerous and reckless, and the United States will not accept the DPRK as a nuclear state,” Kerry said during a joint briefing with South Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se.