SOURCE: NYT
5-16-18
tags: nuclear weapons, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, nuclear war, Trump, Libya Model
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5-16-18
Why North Korea Is Angered by ‘Libya Model’ in Nuclear Talks
Breaking Newstags: nuclear weapons, North Korea, Kim Jong Un, nuclear war, Trump, Libya Model
When North Korea suddenly threw a historic summit meeting with the United States into question on Wednesday, it cited — five times — the fate of another country and another leader, half a world away, as an example of why no one should trust American efforts to disarm another nation.
The country was Libya, and the leader was Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who made a bad bet that he could swap his nascent nuclear program for economic integration with the West. That deal, executed by the Bush administration nearly 15 years ago, is a footnote to American histories of that era.
But it has always loomed large for the North Koreans.
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