North Korea not foolish to accept Libya model: Analyst

North Korea knows very well that accepting a disarmament model like the one the West offered Libya would be “foolish,” says an American analyst, arguing that the very same model ultimately led to Libya’s destruction.

Scott Bennett, a former US Army psychological warfare officer, made the remarks on Monday, a day after US President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, John Bolton, said the White House was considering a “Libya model” to denuclearize North Korea.

This is while Pyongyang has already singled out the model in the past as a source of its distrust for Washington.

The process saw former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi make a full disclosure about the weapons programs his country was running.

Like they did in Libya, the Americans would seek to destroy any nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons program that North Korea might be running, before the US could make any concessions, Bolton added.

Soon after the disarmament, various political groups in Libya declared war against each other and the country became so destabilized that, in 2011, the US and its allies decided to intervene militarily and oust Gaddafi. This ultimately led to Gaddafi’s capture and death at the hands of US-backed rebels.

The chaos took a turn for the worse once Daesh and other Takfiri terror groups rose to power in parts of Libya. The country has never been able to recover from the crisis.

PressTV-US weighing Libya model for N Korea: Bolton

John Bolton says the White House is putting together a disarmament model for North Korea similar to the one that was carried out in Libya in early 2000s.

“The Libyan model is an absolute failure and the demonstration of misery, hypocrisy, betrayal and really just the worst elements of regime change foreign policy,” Bennett said.

“If John Bolton is actually serious, if he is somehow off of his medication, and is actually and realistically forecasting the Libyan model and the veritable instrument to apply, it is a sign of the absolute insanity of the United States national security adviser,” Bennett added.

Such a move would also destroy whatever respect the Trump government still might have in the international community, the analyst said, especially now that Bolton “sees himself as the ocean’s tide and every other government regime as a sand castle.”

Bennett said if Washington was indeed going to implement the Libya model, Pyongyang needed to react and prevent a similar scenario in North Korea.

“Libya is a cautionary tale of betrayal, of promises, of skullduggery” and a mix of actions by the administration of former US President Barack Obama, and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, the analyst further explained.

Referring to the Western military intervention that led to Gaddafi’s fall in 2011, Bennett said beside Obama, former leaders of the UK and France were also to blame for the worsening situation in Libya. An intervention that he said Saudis had funded.

“All of these people conspired to overthrow Gaddafi to lie to him, to lie to the Libyan people and when they had in fact turned their weapons over and promised not to develop any, they were then cannibalized,” he argued.

“So that is one end result that North Korea needs to very carefully understand,” he said. “It is an inevitable end if they relinquish their ability to defend themselves and I don’t think the Koreans are that foolish.”

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