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As a result of trilateral negotiations involving Libya, Britain and the United States, Libyan leader Muammar al‐Qadhafi decided on December 19, 2003, to abandon his country's weapons‐of‐mass‐destruction (WMD) programs. The first George W. Bush administration attributed the dismantlement agreement to a consistently applied policy of sanctions and isolation throughout the 1980s and 1990s.2 A few years later, Ambassador John Bolton and hardline neoconservatives, who espoused the implementation of a similar policy towards North Korea, criticized the second Bush administration for prematurely easing pressure on Pyongyang
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