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Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): The Libyan crisis will make it difficult for the Western powers like the United States in convincing Iran, and North Korea to drop their nuclear ambitions, an American analyst has said.

There are reports that Iranian leaders, like that of North Korea, have now started to interpret Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s plight as a lesson as to why they should not compromise on their nuclear developments with the West, and believe that the international forces would have thought twice before attacking the oil-rich country had Gaddafi been in possession of his nuclear and other WMD programs.

Earlier this week, North Korea had called the deal, which the US had extended to Gaddafi in 2003, as “an invasion tactic to disarm the country.”

Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry had said that Libya’s nuclear dismantlement “turned out to be a mode of aggression whereby the US coaxed Libya with such sweet words as ‘guarantee of security’ and ‘improvement of relations’ to disarm, and then swallowed it up by force.”

The Christian Science Monitor quoted Geoffrey Kemp, Director of regional strategic programs at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, as saying that the resistance of these two countries to any compromise on nuclear programs is “only going to get worse as a result of the Libyan adventure.”

“Now the question of Iran is going to loom ever larger in the minds of many, and the administration is going to have to deal with this,” he added.

In 2003, Gaddafi had reportedly signed a deal with the US and Britain allowing the longtime international it to rejoin the international community in exchange for renouncing terrorism and giving up WMD programs. (ANI)