New York – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on its website on Sunday.
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“I would go, yes,” Carter, 93, told the Times when he was asked in an interview at his ranch house in Plains, Georgia whether it was time for another diplomatic mission and whether he would do so for President Trump.
Carter, a Democrat who was president from 1977 to 1981, said he had spoken to Trump’s National Security Adviser Lt.-Gen. H. R. McMaster, who is a friend, but so far has gotten a negative response.
“I told him that I was available if they ever need me,” the Times quoted Carter as saying.
Told that some in Washington were made nervous by Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s war of words, Carter said “I’m afraid, too, of a situation.”
“They want to save their regime. And we greatly overestimate China’s influence on North Korea. Particularly to Kim,” who, Carter added, has “never, so far as I know, been to China.””And they have no relationship. Kim Jong-il did go to China and was very close to them.”
Describing the North Korean leader as “unpredictable,” Carter worried that if Kim thinks Trump will act against him, he could do something pre-emptive, the Times reported.
“I think he’s now got advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean Peninsula and Japan, and some of our outlying territories in the Pacific, maybe even our mainland,” Carter said.
In the mid 1990s, Carter traveled to Pyongyang over the objections of President Bill Clinton, the Times report said, and struck a deal with Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current leader.
Go Carter Go..and take your time while there!
I will pay u a one way ticket
I would gladly pay for a one way ticket, if he promises to stay.
Buy yourself a cemetary plot there before you arrive.
maybe they will like him so much there, they’ll keep him
An excellent idea. Please take Diblasio with you…..and stay there.
How was this guy ever elected president? Arguably the worst president in history with the possible exception of Obama
An Ami journalist made the trip.
One way Pls
Maybe Carter can bring some peanuts from his farm to alleviate the N Korea food crisis. That ought to be a nice gesture from the wise peanut farmer.
He’s a fungus that keeps coming back.
I do not like Carter. In fact I dislike him intensely. However, you all have to admit one thing.– he is a courageous man to try to go to North Korea. He is 93 and has gone through cancer. Maybe he figures this is his last hurrah!
It shows this man’s character that at his age he is still willing to work to prevent a war.
Posting # 14 and 15 shows that sanity still,prevails. whatever your opinion about Carter is a trip to Korea at his age and medical history is not a pleasure. Yes at Camp David he was instrumental in the peace agreement between Begin and Sadat. You have to be educated to know this
Bibi is a big knacker because his southern region is safe. There is an Israeli ambassador in Cairo.Of Yes Sadat was not a fake blond like the current occupant of then oval office but quite dark. Without the Egyptian peace agreement Israel’s military situation would precarious. Number 11 learn history and become educated.