Trump Says No 'Libya Model' for Denuclearization of N. Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday tried to put his summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un back on track, saying he would not seek to implement a so-called "Libya model" for denuclearization that would force Pyongyang to give up its arms and see Kim ousted.
Pyongyang on Tuesday threatened to cancel the summit set for June 12 in Singapore, blaming U.S. demands for "unilateral nuclear abandonment."
That was a reference to comments made by Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton, who referred to the "Libya model from 2003, 2004" as a blueprint for the denuclearization promised by North Korea.
In late 2003, then Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi agreed to the elimination of his country's nuclear program and chemical weapons arsenal to gain sanctions relief.
The reference was seen in Pyongyang as unfortunate at best: after giving up his atomic program, Gadhafi was killed in 2011 in an uprising backed by NATO bombing.
Kim "will get protections that will be very strong," Trump told reporters."He'd be in his country and running his country."
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The failure of the Republican Party in the US is measured by its failure to go after Democratic heiress Hillary Clinton for her twin crimes of destroying Libya and trying to subvert democracy in the US by conspiring with the Democratic National Committee to deny the 2016 Presidential nomination to her primary foe, Bernie Sanders.
