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Trump warns Kim Jong-Un to strike a deal or suffer the same fate as Gaddafi
US President Donald Trump contradicted his national security adviser John Bolton and said the 'Libya model' for denuclearisation is not the way forward with North Korea, but said it was a possibility if both countries don't strike a deal in the near future.
Earlier in the week, North Korean officials said they might call-off the 12 June summit in Singapore with the US after American national security adviser, John Bolton, said the US might pursue the same path towards denuclearisation that it did with Libya in 2003.
Although Bolton was referring to the deal struck in December 2003, where Libya agreed to dismantle and surrender its nuclear programme, when speaking about the 'Libya model' on Friday, Trump was referring to NATO's 2011 intervention in the country, which ended with the assassination of that country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
President Trump clarified on Friday that "The Libyan model isn't a model that we have at all when we're thinking of North Korea."
However, if the two countries fail to reach an agreement, then that model could be a possibility, Trump said.
"The model, if you look at that model with Gaddafi, that was a total decimation. We went in there to beat him. Now that model would take place if we don't make a deal, most likely. But if we make a deal, I think Kim Jong-un is going to be very, very happy," the US President explained.
"We want for North Korea something where Kim Jong-Un would be there, he'd be in his country, he'd be running his country, his country would be very rich.
"If you look at South Korea, this would be really a South Korean model in terms of their industry [...] They're hard-working, incredible people."