The United States says that the multinational forces’ military actions against Libya have nothing to do with the North African country’s scrapping of its nuclear weapons programs.

State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner told reporters on Tuesday that the recent attacks against Libya by coalition forces have "absolutely no connection” with Libya renouncing its nuclear program and nuclear weapons.

He made the remark after being asked to comment on North Korea’s claims that Libya was coaxed to give up nuclear programs by the promise of security assurance and improved relations with the United States, only to be attacked in the end.

Toner said the multinational coalition’s intervention resulted after Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi turned weapons against his own people and conducted an armed military campaign.

Toner then said that Washington has made it quite clear that North Korea needs to engage itself in a more constructive way and that it needs to denuclearize.