Updated On: 17 May, 2018 08:27 AM IST | New York | Agencies
During the 2011 uprising against Colonel Gaddafi's regime, Western powers intervened in Libya in favour of the rebels, and Gaddafi was captured and killed


John Bolton
US National Security Advisor John Bolton has previously said it would be "perfectly legitimate" to carry out a pre-emptive strike on North Korea. In media interviews over the weekend, Bolton said North Korea could follow a Libyan model of nuclear disarmament — Libya gave up its weapons' programmes in the early 2000s and normalised relations with the US.