Libya urges North Korea to follow its lead

SEOUL: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi told South Korea’s foreign minister that North Korea and Iran must follow Libya’s lead and abandon their nuclear weapons ambitions, Yonhap news agency said on Wednesday. Colonel Gaddafi also told Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon in a meeting in Tripoli late on Tuesday that the North and Iran must also receive adequate assistance to help them use nuclear technology peacefully, the Yonhap report said. “We are trying to persuade North Korea,” Ban quoted Gaddafi as saying. “The North Korean nuclear problem is a grave and dangerous issue,” Gaddafi was quoted as saying. Ban is on the last leg of a four-country tour of Africa, which also took him to Algeria, Tanzania and Kenya. South Korea’s foreign ministry was unable to confirm the remarks. North Korea is believed to have one or two nuclear weapons and possibly more than eight. reuters

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