President Donald Trump has been in the media focus after the South Korean president said that getting North Korea to denuclearize and end the Korean War would be a monumental achievement worthy of the Nobel prize.
There is no assurance that Trump’s upcoming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will lead to a lasting peace deal, on which Trump on Tuesday commented that people are getting a bit ahead of themselves, Washington Post reported.
“I just think that President Moon [Jae-in] was very nice when he suggested it,” Trump said Tuesday when asked about his Nobel prospects. “I want to get peace. The main thing, we want to get peace. It was a big problem, and I think it’s going to work out well.”
“We’ll see. … But I thought it was very generous of President Moon of South Korea to make that statement, and I appreciate it, but the main thing is to get it done. I want to get it done,” he added.
Trump getting the award for statesmanship would come months after the world was on edge of nuclear war as he mocked Kim as “Little Rocket Man” and threatened “fire and fury” if North Korea continued its nuclear threats. However, it’s possible that President Trump could be nominated for next year’s peace prize, which former President Barack Obama won in 2009.
Anyone can be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by someone who falls into one of eight categories. Eligible nominators include members of national assemblies or national governments of sovereign states, but people cannot nominate themselves, even though a member of Congress or his Cabinet could nominate Trump.
Politics has been seen as front and center in the Nobel prize, and there are those who doubt the committee would pick Trump for the award even if he did achieve Korean peace.
“My guess is they would not be comfortable giving it to him unless there was a tangible result,” said Andy Keiser, a principal at Navigators Global who worked on the Trump transition’s national security team. “Perhaps even then, it would be for all three of them, Trump, Moon, and Kim.”
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