At 93 years old it would be pretty amazing if former President Carter ends up making a trip to Pyongyang to negotiate an end to the latest nuclear crisis:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter landed in North Korea on June 15, 1994 as Washington was getting close to bombing the Yongbyon nuclear facility. After talks with then-Pyongyang leader Kim Il Sung, Carter managed to broker a deal that diffused the crisis – and prevented another war on the peninsula. [YONHAP]Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he is willing to go on a diplomatic mission to North Korea on behalf of President Donald Trump, saying that China’s influence on the Pyongyang regime is “greatly overestimated.”
“I would go, yes,” Carter, 93, told a New York Times columnist at his home in Plains, Georgia, about whether he would go to Pyongyang for the Republican Trump administration.
According to an article published Saturday, Carter said that he has spoken with H. R. McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, whom he called a good friend, and said, “I told him that I was available if they ever need me.”
But so far, he has gotten a negative response.
“I’m afraid, too, of a situation,” Carter said, remarking on the concern in Washington over the bellicose exchanges between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “I don’t know what they’ll do. Because they want to save their regime,” referring to the North.
He voiced concern that the young leader Kim may try pre-emptive action if he thinks Trump would act against him, and added, “I think he’s now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean Peninsula and Japan,” as well as outlying territories in the Pacific and maybe even parts of the U.S. mainland. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
Wow, this is something else. A ninety-year old Jimmy Carter is wiling to go to Pyongyang, but Trump is too much of a wuss to even visit the DMZ!
Liz
7 years ago
A world where Carter had never visited the DPRK
would probably be a world where the DPRK wouldn’t be waving around nukes today like an infant with a new rattle.
Rock
7 years ago
Trump doesn’t want to visit the DMZ because he is a wuss. He is going to Vietnam. But he had a chance to do that five decades ago and apparently his bone spurs prevented him from erving. What a wuss!
People seem to forget what happened the last time Jimmy Carter visited north Korea. A short time later Kim Il-Sung DIED! Will the same happen if Jimmy visits again? Stay tuned!
Conspiracy theorists get your notes ready. History may be ready to repeat itself!
MTB Rider
7 years ago
Jimmy Carter, nonagenarian International Assassin!
I mean, who would suspect him? Submariners can really keep their secrets.
Wow, this is something else. A ninety-year old Jimmy Carter is wiling to go to Pyongyang, but Trump is too much of a wuss to even visit the DMZ!
A world where Carter had never visited the DPRK
would probably be a world where the DPRK wouldn’t be waving around nukes today like an infant with a new rattle.
Trump doesn’t want to visit the DMZ because he is a wuss. He is going to Vietnam. But he had a chance to do that five decades ago and apparently his bone spurs prevented him from erving. What a wuss!
Can someone buy Rock a puppy? He seems really ronery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdug6yHJB40
People seem to forget what happened the last time Jimmy Carter visited north Korea. A short time later Kim Il-Sung DIED! Will the same happen if Jimmy visits again? Stay tuned!
Conspiracy theorists get your notes ready. History may be ready to repeat itself!
Jimmy Carter, nonagenarian International Assassin!
I mean, who would suspect him? Submariners can really keep their secrets.