Trump should make no mention of Libya in talks with Kim: ex-US envoy

— U.S. President Donald Trump should not mention the example of Libya when he meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to discuss the denuclearization of the regime, a former U.S. envoy said Tuesday.

Robert King, former U.S. special envoy for North Korea human rights, was addressing recent talk about a Libyan style solution to the issue of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, under which the North would be rewarded only after it completely dismantles the facility.

He said the North’s current vice foreign minister, Kim Kye-gwan, made it clear to him in a meeting in 2011 that Pyongyang will not follow the example of Libya, whose then leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was months away from being killed by rebel forces.