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In October 2006, Rice asserted that although “the diplomatic path is open” for North Korea, the country's decision to continue its nuclear program meant it would face “international condemnation and international sanctions unlike anything that they have faced before.”<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/washington/11diplo.html|title=Rice Asserts U.S. Plans No Attack on North Korea|date=October 10, 2006|publisher=New York Times}}</ref> Later that month, Rice worked with allies to pass a UN Security Council resolution against North Korea that demanded North Korea destroy all of its nuclear weapons,<ref>[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061014/D8KOI9DO0.html U.N. Adopts Resolution Against N. Korea] October 14, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061126173204/http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061014/D8KOI9DO0.html |date=November 26, 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/un-agrees-to-punish-n-korea-but-how/|title=UN Agrees To Punish N. Korea, But How?|date=October 15, 2006|publisher=CBS News}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/14/nkorea.sanctions/|title=U.N. slaps trade, travel sanctions on North Korea|date=October 15, 2006|publisher=CNN}}</ref> Rice hailing both the resolution as "the toughest sanctions on North Korea that have ever been imposed" and the unanimous passage of its sanctions, which even North Korean–friendly China supported.<ref>[https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/74014.htm Transcript of Interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace], [[United States Department of State]], online posting, ''state.gov'', October 15, 2006.</ref> Nobel Laureate and cold-war nuclear strategist [[Thomas Schelling]] criticized Rice for organizing a punitive response, when she should have encouraged Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to reaffirm the [[Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty]].<ref>Michael Spence, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB117168425437912114 "Mr. Counterintuition"], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', February 17, 2007.</ref>
In September 2008, Rice traveled to [[Libya]] to meet with [[Muammar Gaddafi]], becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the country since then-Vice President [[Richard Nixon]] in 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/05/libya.usa|title=Condoleezza Rice meets Gadafy in Libya|date=September 5, 2008|publisher=The Guardian}}</ref> Rice stated that her meeting with Gaddafi entailed "learning from the lessons of the past" and "the importance of moving forward. The United States, I've said many times, doesn't have any permanent enemies."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26556706|title=Rice visits former pariah Libya, meets Gadhafi|date=September 5, 2008|publisher=NBC News}}</ref> In her memoir, Rice wrote that Gaddafi "had a slightly eerie fascination with me personally" and that she left the meeting "realizing how much Gaddafi lives inside his own head, in a kind of alternate reality."<ref>{{cite book|title=No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington|year=2011|isbn=978-0-307-58786-2|first=Condoleezza|last=Rice|publisher=Crown Archetype|pages=702-703.}}</ref>
==Post–Bush administration==
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