LIBYA/NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The White House on Wednesday [5-16-18] downplayed comments by national security adviser John Bolton, who recently invoked Libya’s decision to denuclearize during the Bush administration as a model for US policy on North Korea, potentially placing a planned US-North Korea summit in jeopardy. Hours earlier, a North Korean official said Bolton’s remarks were indicative of an ‘awfully sinister move’ to imperil the Kim regime. North Korea stunned Washington on Tuesday by threatening to abandon talks between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un if Washington insists on pushing it ‘into a corner’ on nuclear disarmament…In April, Bolton suggested that the White House was looking at Libya as an example of how it will handle negotiations with North Korea to denuclearize…The US agreed to ease sanctions on Libya in 2003 in exchange for a promise by Moammar Gadhafi to abandon his country’s nuclear program. Eight years later, however, Gadhafi was overthrown and killed by rebels backed by Washington.”
-Veronica Stracqualursi, ‘White House downplays Bolton comments after North Korea outcry,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 16, 2018 9:43 am