Jimmy Carter Offers to Meet with North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un

Former President Jimmy Carter has allegedly offered to hold a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in an attempt at peace talks, The Hill reports. A University of Georgia professor specified Carter’s offer to Korea JoongAng Daily, a South Korean newspaper.

“Carter wants to meet with the North Korean leader and play a constructive role for peace on the Korean Peninsula as he did in 1994,” Park Han-shi said for the newspaper. Park, who met with Carter, is the professor emeritus at the university’s School of Public & International Affairs.

“Should former President Carter be able to visit North Korea, he would like to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and discuss a peace treaty between the United States and the North and a complete denuclearization of North Korea,” Park stated for the paper.

Park also said that Carter wants “to prevent a second Korean War.” The offer coming from the 39th president of U.S. comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.

North Korea in early September issued a statement that it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen bomb that can be placed on an intercontinental ballistic missile. The Trump administration at the end of the month introduced brand new sanctions on several North Koreans banks and nationals abroad.

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