WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned North Korea Monday against seizing on the U.S. focus on Iraq to press a nuclear weapons program and said Washington could fight and win two wars at once.

"I have no reason to believe that you're correct that North Korea feels emboldened because of the world's interest in Iraq," he told a reporter after the North took steps over the weekend to reactivate a nuclear reactor.

"If they do, it would be a mistake," he added at a Pentagon briefing, saying the U.S. military was perfectly capable of fighting two major regional conflicts plus the U.S.-declared war on terror at once, if necessary.

"We are capable of winning decisively in one and swiftly defeating in the case of the other," he said. "Let there be no doubt about it."

Gee, aren't we already fighting one on drugs plus the one on terrorism? And one against corporate criminals and one on the environment and one on the separation of powers and one on the Bill of Rights and one on.....