Is President Moon Trying to Position Himself for A Nobel Peace Prize?
That is what a professor from Hankuk University believes:
Professor Kim Jang-ho from Hankuk University believes that for this reason, the detente won’t last. He is also sceptical of President Moon’s motives and doesn’t believe there has been any breakthrough with North Korea.
“President Moon is trying to buy some time so that he can achieve a summit meeting with Kim Jong-un.
“Our president wants to meet him to symbolically say that North Korea is a normal nation and they are capable of talking. It automatically propels him to the list for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the US and Japan will pressure us to go ahead with military exercises as soon as possible, late April maybe.
“I think certainly with those exercises continuing, and they will go ahead definitely before May, we will go from the thaw to tension all over again.”
Many doubt North Korea’s willingness to discuss getting rid of its nuclear weapons with the US. Kim Jong-un has tried to reassure Seoul by saying his missiles are not pointing at South Koreans, they’re pointing instead at the “US aggressors”, and that they could be used to protect all of Korea.
I put it to Professor Bong Young-shik that North Korea would never give up its missiles. The research fellow at Yonsei University disagreed.
“The North Korean regime’s ultimate goal is survival and security,” the expert in North Korea said. [BBC]
You can read more at the link, but before anyone considers President Moon for a Nobel Peace Prize they should realize that when he was the Chief of Staff for former President Roh Moo-hyun, they helped to funnel billions of dollars in aid that allowed the Kim regime to build their nuclear weapons and ICBMs.
You would think though that after the embarrassment of awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to former ROK President Kim Dae-jung the Nobel committee would be weary of awarding one to another ROK president. This is because it was later discovered that the Inter-Korean Summit between Kim Dae-jung and Kim Jong-il was only possible after North Korea received a $500 million dollar bribe.
Maybe Kim Jung Un thinks he will get the noble peace prize for no provocations during the olympics. Everyone deserves a trophy!
Commie moon trying to position himself to be the North Korean administrator over southern Korea.
He should at least ask for the Nobel Peace Prize to be in science. Korea is missing one of those.
Why not.
From a purely empirical analysis, I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama… but he took it from me due to politics.
Since it is now meaningless, everyone deserves one.
If I got one, I coild afford to getthe house painted and the carpet and windows replaced.