North Korea's Nuke Lesson from Libya

North Korea's Nuke Lesson from Libya

SEOUL - North Korea could hardly have come up with a better reason for not giving up its nuclear weapons program than the United States-led bombing of the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

It was nearly eight years ago that Gaddafi made a show of jettisoning a nuclear weapons program in deference to the demands of the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In return, Gaddafi, once the bete noir of the Western world, the cruel tyrant who condoned or maybe ordered the bombing of PanAm Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, was showered with aid and favors, not to mention diplomatic relations with the US in 2006.

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