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How the miserable death of Moammar Gadhafi factors into Kim Jong Un's nuclear ambitions

    North Korean leader Kim's refusal to disarm may be due to memories of the downfall of Libyan dictator Gadhafi
    Gadhafi surrendered his nuclear weapons program in response to Western demands in 2003
    He was killed by NATO-backed rebel forces in the Libyan Civil War 8 years later


Stacey Yuen   
1 Hour AgoCNBC.com   
Tuesday, 11 Jul 2017 | 8:33 AM ET | 00:45

North Korea's refusal to drop its nuclear weapons program may have a lot to do with the fate that met another would-be nuclear power's dictator just a few years ago.

Pyongyang's ongoing development of nuclear weaponry — including the nation's second intercontinental ballistic missile test in a month — has set off alarm bells across the international community. But the insistence of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to keep building an arsenal could come from a lesson he learned from another one-time opponent of the West: Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.

Continued: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/30/how-the-miserable-death-of-moammar-gadhafi-factors-into-kim-jong-uns-nuclear-ambitions.html

Sounds plausible.  The intervention has never been properly explained to me. If anyone has any links, post. I have heard some comment on it but not a lot.

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Gaddafi was killed by Obama's Arab Spring, which he and Ayers kicked off in his first international act as President when he gave that speech to the Islamic world in Cairo.  The goal was replacing all secular dictators in the Islamic world with Islamic Zealots hungry for the Caliphate.

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