Rice Urges Pyongyang to Study Libyan Precedent

North Korea would be “surprised” at the rewards it could receive for dismantling its nuclear programs, U.S. national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Friday in Seoul (see GSN, July 8).

“North Korea will be surprised to see how much will be possible (if it abandons its nuclear programs),” Rice told South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon in Seoul, according to Agence France-Presse. “So much is possible if North Korea just does that,” she added.

Rice expressed hope that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il would follow the example of Libyan leader Col. Muammar Qadhafi, who restored relations with the United States after renouncing weapons of mass destruction.

“I wish Kim Jong Il would talk to Qadhafi,” Rice said (Agence France-Presse/Yahoo!News, July 9).

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