So much for Libyan example
By Donald Kirk John Bolton, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, may be hawkish and conservative, but at least you had to credit him with sophistication and having insights on the issues and the people whom he was confronting. In the course of many visits to Korea, he often displayed understanding on the realities of dealing with the North and the need for strong countermeasures against rising threats from the Kim dynasty.You wonder, though, how much Bolton, after his years at the State Department and U.N., knows or understands when he holds up the Libyan “model” as an example for North Korea. If there's any model that turns off the North Koreans, as anyone who's been following the rhetoric is well aware, it's that of Libya. The country's seemingly omnipotent dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, the North Koreans often note, made the fatal error of having agreed in secret negotiations to abandon his nascent nuclear program and get along with the Western nations that he'd been confronting for decades. Actually, Gadhafi's nuclear aspirations were not nearly so adv
