Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korea's Moon

[F-22Raptor]

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme, a South Korean official said on Monday.

"President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace," Moon told a meeting of senior secretaries, according to a presidential Blue House official who briefed media.

Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday pledged to end hostilities between the two countries and work towards the "complete denuclearisation" of the Korean peninsula in the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.

Trump is preparing for his own summit with Kim, which he said would take place in the next three to four weeks.

That upcoming meeting was the main subject of a private walk and chat that Kim and Moon had during their meeting at the border, the official said.

In January, Moon said Trump "deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks. It could be a resulting work of the U.S.-led sanctions and pressure".
Moon's Nobel Prize comment came in response to a congratulatory message from Lee Hee-ho, the widow of late South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, in which she said Moon deserved to win the prize in recognition of his efforts, the Blue House official said.

Moon responded by saying Trump should get it.

Kim Dae-jung championed the so-called Sunshine policy of engagement with North Korea, and won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize after engineering the first inter-Korean summit with former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

During Monday's meeting, Moon called for a joint study with the North of economic projects that could be resumed without violating international sanctions imposed on North Korea for its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.

"The study is to set in motion the programmes that are not subject to sanctions, while exploring what the two Koreas could do when the sanctions are lifted in the future," the official quoted Moon as saying.

The Trump administration has led a global effort to impose ever stricter sanctions on North Korea.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that Trump would maintain a "pressure campaign" of harsh sanctions on impoverished North Korea until Kim scraps his nuclear weapon programme.

Late Saturday, Trump told Moon in a phone call that he was pleased the leaders of the two Koreas reaffirmed the goal of complete denuclearisation during their summit, South Korean officials said on Sunday.

The White House said Trump and Moon had "emphasised that a peaceful and prosperous future for North Korea is contingent upon its complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearisation".

A senior adviser to Moon told Reuters last week that the South Korean government had a "comprehensive roadmap" that it was sharing with the United States ahead of Trump's meeting with Kim.

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[Beast]

LOL.. Are he serious?

All this effort shall go to President Xi, little Kim was summon to Beijing and instructed to behave well and have peace with everybody. Nothing to do with Trump.

 

[Hamza913]

Why not give it to Kim Jong Un for actually being a good sport?

 

[powastick]

What a joke, if noble peace prize to be given to Trump. Title is click baiting. "President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace" said Moon.

 

[Raphael]

I agree with Moon. Trump belongs to the same calibre of people as quality former laureates like Henry Kissinger, Menachem Begin, Tenzin Gyatso, Obama, Liu Xiaobo. Awarding it to Trump will definitely cement the reputation of the 'prize'

 

[randomradio]

Trump deserves it more than Obama did.

 

[Nan Yang]

President Moon is playing to Trump's ego.
He trying to preempt Trump diplomatically to set Trump on the way to peaceful outcome of Kim Trump summit.

Good move.

 

[Maxpane]

I think visit to china was important may be china assured him to protect him from foreign invaders . Kim visit to china changed the scenario . I believe president xi is the silent hero .

 

[shadows888]

I think visit to china was important may be china assured him to protect him from foreign invaders . Kim visit to china changed the scenario . I believe president xi is the silent hero .

Obama got one for campaign promises and being not bush. In that case, Trump should get at least 3 or 4 Nobel prizes. I fully support Trump getting a few nobels.

 

[Suika]

Xi deserves no credit. If Xi wanted DPRK to stop the nuclear development, he could have tightened the oil supply to DPRK a long time ago. Instead it was the crediable use of force against DPRK by the US and US threat to apply sanctions on Chinese banks that got China to go along with sanctions on the DPRK to finally get DPRK talking about denuclearization. Xi deserves less credit than even Abe. Xi was a cause to problem.

 

[gambit]

The Nobel committee fooked up big time when they awarded the Nobel Prize to Barack Obama simply for being 'cool'. Obama did nothing to deserve the Nobel. The people who calls for the Nobel to Trump is simply taking advantage of the extremely low bar the committee created. So it does not matter if you like Obama and despise Trump. Calling Trump as undeserving misses this point -- the low bar.

Let it go. The committee will never give the Nobel to Trump, even if during his administration, the Korean peninsula got peaceful, the Palestinians and the Israelis got a two states solution, all the nuclear powers disarmed of their nuclear weapons, and the cure for cancer was discovered. No matter how high the bar Trump achieved.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Xi deserves no credit. If Xi wanted DPRK to stop the nuclear development, he could have tightened the oil supply to DPRK a long time ago. Instead it was the crediable use of force against DPRK by the US and US threat to apply sanctions on Chinese banks that got China to go along with sanctions on the DPRK to finally get DPRK talking about denuclearization. Xi deserves less credit than even Abe. Xi was a cause to problem.

Xi deserves credit to make China more safer by initiating Kim's visit to China, we're careless about western Nobel political game, the security of China's north east are billion time more valuable that the insignificant Nobel prize. China has fought UN army in 1950s, million of our voluntaries soldiers died and we're scare of US's sanction on Chinese banks? you Japanese are just short sighted no wonder you guys have surrendered so quick after two nukes in WWII while we Chinese fought a attrition war against Japan for decades and extend to Korea war without a sense of defeatism.

If president Xi was the cause of the problem then Japan was the root of the problem.

 

[Suika]

Xi deserves credit to make China more safer by initiating Kim's visit to China, we're careless about western Nobel political game, the security of China's north east are billion time more valuable that the insignificant Nobel prize. China has fought UN army in 1950s, million of our voluntaries soldiers died and we're scare of US's sanction on Chinese banks? you Japanese are just short sighted no wonder you guys have surrendered so quick after two nukes in WWII while we Chinese fought a attrition war against Japan for decades and extend to Korea war without a sense of defeatism.

If president Xi was the cause of the problem then Japan was the root of the problem.

Xi initiated the visit because if Fat Kim was to continue, then US and ROK aircraft would be reducing DPRK to rubble and thus the fall of the regime. China probably counted on the US to not bring it to the point of war given how soft Obama was. Don't you remember many of the posters here were cheering for the success of DPRK missile and nuke test? Now you are claiming Xi supported the talks for denuclearization. Face it, China got arm twisted into cooperating.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

Xi initiated the visit because if Fat Kim was to continue, then US and ROK aircraft would be reducing DPRK to rubble and thus the fall of the regime. China probably counted on the US to not bring it to the point of war given how soft Obama was. Don't you remember many of the posters here were cheering for the success of DPRK missile and nuke test? Now you are claiming Xi supported the talks for denuclearization. Face it, China got arm twisted into cooperating.

With US military capability they can reduce DPRK to dust but US know that China will not sit idle. China had made a stridden effort to convince Kim not to be antagonist with US for the sake peninsula peace which it's China best interest and not because we're back down to US pressure, you can interpret the way you want but it was China who made the ice breaking and allow more warm rapprochement of two Koreas.

 

[Suika]

With US military capability they can reduce DPRK to dust but US know that China will not sit idle. China had made a stridden effort to convince Kim not to be antagonist with US for the sake peninsula peace which it's China best interest and not because we're back down to US pressure, you can interpret the way you want but it was China who made the ice breaking and allow more warm rapprochement of two Koreas.

It was DPRK launching BMs and conducting nuke tests and China stood silent. And not just that, kept given oil, and gave them the mobile launchers. Where else did DPRK get the TELs? China was using the DPRK as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the US. Trump threatened and trade war with China and threatened to put sanctions on Chinese banks. Since China is not economically ready for it's holy campaign in pushing the US out of the western Pacific, they caved and agreed to cooperate in squeezing DPRK. If China really wanted to stop DPRK, they could have cut the oil in steps years ago. They didn't. Not until US pressure and global pressure at the UNSC.