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Jeff Merkley: “Because Libya had voluntarily retired its nuclear program under international assurances of non-aggression, and, in…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2017
Because Libya had voluntarily retired its nuclear program under international assurances of non-aggression, and, in fact, those assurances fell apart?
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley discusses Libya's nuclear program and its implications for North Korea.

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