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About-Face on Libya Signals Hope for Iran, N. Korea: Rice

Posted Sep 5, 08 2:34 PM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Iran and North Korea, take heed: America’s reconciliation with Libya proves that Washington has no permanent enemies, Condoleezza Rice said today. The secretary of state, meeting in Tripoli with onetime international pariah Moammar Gadhafi, said her historic trip “demonstrates that when countries are prepared to make strategic changes in direction, the United States is prepared to respond,” AFP reports.

But Rice said “there is a long way to go” in improving relations between the countries. Still, the visit marks full renewal of relations with Libya, which has suspended its nuclear program—an act the US hopes Tehran and Pyongyang will follow. Gadhafi, the Arab world’s longest-serving leader, insisted all his country wants from the US “is to be left alone.”

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