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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Should Trump Win The Nobel Peace Prize? If So, What Will The Liberals Do Then?

Breaking: President Trump Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian Lawmakers

By Erin Coates
June 13, 2018 at 8:59am

Two Norwegian lawmakers have nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and reaching an agreement to work toward denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

Christian Tybring-Gjedde and Per-Willy Amundsen are members of Norway’s governing Progress Party and nominated the U.S. president the day after the Singapore summit, according to the Norwegian government-owned broadcaster NRK.

“What’s going on now is historic,” Per-Willy told NRK, according to Bloomberg. “A process is underway to ensure world peace in the future. It’s a fragile process, but we must of course do what we can to help this process bring good results.”

The lawmakers also told Norwegian news agency NTB that Trump “had taken a huge and important step in the direction of the disarmament, peace and reconciliation between North and South Korea,” The Associated Press reported.

Since the deadline for nominations for this year’s prize has already passed, Trump’s nomination will make him eligible for next year.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee — a committee of five people chosen by the Norwegian parliament who award the Nobel Peace Prize — receives hundreds of nominations to consider for the prize every year. This year, a record 330 people were nominated, according to Bloomberg.

This is not the first time that Trump has been nominated for the prize as a result of his efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.

In April, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said that Trump deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in bringing about the denuclearization talks on the Korean peninsula and the possibility of an official end to decades-long war between North and South.

“President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize,” Moon is said to have told a meeting of senior secretaries, according to a Korean official who briefed the media. “What we need is only peace.”

Do you think Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Following the South Korean president’s informal nomination, a group of 18 Republican members of Congress signed their names to a letter formally nominating Trump for the prize in May.

The letter was sent by Rep. Luke Messer of Indiana to the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Wednesday and signed on to by 17 other House GOP members, including Reps. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Diane Black and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Steve King of Iowa to name some.

In the letter, the lawmakers commend Trump for working “tirelessly to apply maximum pressure on North Korea to end its illicit weapons program and bring peace to the region.”

“His Administration successfully united the international community, including China, to impose one of the most international sanctions regimes in history,” which “have been largely credited for bringing North Korea to the negotiating table,” they said.

After roughly five hours of talks between Trump and Kim in Singapore on Tuesday, the two leaders emerged from the summit with an agreement that includes the “complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.”

“President Trump committed to provide security guarantees to the DPRK and Chairman Kim Jong Un reaffirmed his unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” read the preamble of the document, according to the New York Post.

The two countries also agreed to work toward “peace and prosperity,” a “stable peace” on the peninsula, to work “toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” and to commit to “recovering POW/MIA remains including the immediate reparations of those already identified.”

Trump acknowledged that denuclearization won’t happen overnight, but said, “Once you start the process it means it’s pretty much over.”

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Rocket Man's Angry Comments Scuttles Summit

Trump Cancels Summit With North Korea’s Kim, Citing ‘Hostility’

Toluse Olorunnipa

May 24, 2018, 9:47 AM EDT Updated on May 24, 2018, 10:14 AM EDT

President cites ‘massive’ U.S. nuclear edge in letter to Kim
North Korea had warned U.S. of ‘nuclear-to-nuclear’ showdown

Kim Jong Un departs the inter-Korean summit in Paju, South Korea, on Friday, April 27. Photographer: Inter-Korean Summit Press Corps

President Donald Trump canceled his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that had been scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, citing “tremendous anger and open hostility” in recent statements from Pyongyang.

Trump’s decision was communicated Thursday in a letter to Kim released by the White House.

North Korea hardened its rhetoric toward the U.S. earlier Thursday, warning it was ready for a “nuclear-to-nuclear” showdown if the U.S. didn’t follow through on the summit.

“You talk about your nuclear capabilities, but ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be used,” Trump wrote.

Stocks turned down sharply as the letter was released, with the S&P 500 index down 0.5 percent at 10:04 a.m. New York time.

With the summit abandoned -- at least temporarily -- the next steps are unclear. Trump has said that if the June 12 meeting were to fall through, the U.S. would continue exerting maximum economic pressure on Kim and his regime.

The highly anticipated summit had been cast by the White House as an opportunity to stave off a military conflict with North Korea and showcase Trump’s ability to make progress where his predecessors had struggled. The president has openly entertained the idea that he could have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize had the meeting led to a peace agreement between North Korea and the U.S. and South Korea. The countries are technically still at war.

But Trump ultimately ran into the same diplomatic quandary that has flummoxed U.S. presidents for the past 25 years: the inability to persuade a stubborn regime to give up a nuclear program that it regards as key to its survival.

The timing of the president’s letter may be an additional embarrassment to North Korea, as the country made a show of demolishing its main nuclear-weapons test site earlier on Thursday before a select group of foreign journalists.

The exercise was portrayed as the destruction of tunnels used for all six of the isolated nation’s nuclear tests, but there was no independent verification that the site was disabled. Arms control experts say the demolition wouldn’t impede Kim’s regime from further weapons development.

Trump agreed to meet Kim after the two leaders spent most of 2017 exchanging increasingly hostile and bellicose barbs. Seoul led the effort at detente with Pyongyang that led to the two countries competing together at the Winter Olympics.

In March, South Korean officials visited the White House to deliver a message directly from Kim, expressing openness to discuss denuclearization. Over the Easter holiday, Trump secretly dispatched Mike Pompeo, then the CIA director and now the secretary of State, to Pyongyang to lay groundwork for the summit. Trump announced on Twitter May 10 that the meeting would be scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.

Pompeo made another trip to Pyongyang earlier this month where he secured the release of three Korean-Americans Kim’s regime had detained.

With talks on the horizon, Trump shifted toward praising the North Korean dictator in recent months. Trump referred to Kim as “gracious” and “honorable,” and thanked him for releasing the three Americans.

But comments from his National Security Adviser, John Bolton, and others in the administration appeared to throw a wrench in the arrangements. Bolton drew the ire of the North Korean government for saying that the country’s nuclear disarmament should follow the “Libya model” embraced by dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who was later overthrown and killed in a U.S.-backed uprising.

The North Korean regime is acutely aware of Qaddafi’s history, and insisted that its country should be regarded not as seeking to develop nuclear weapons but as a nuclear power in its own right.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Wouldn't It Rile The Trump Haters If He Won The Nobel Prize?

Breaking: Trump Gets Massive Nobel Prize News

Breaking:Trump Gets Massive Nobel Prize News

There are four U.S. presidents in history who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, to the chagrin of the left, there could be a fifth.

BY BENJAMIN ARIE
MAY 2, 2018 AT 1:47PM

There are four U.S. presidents in history who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, to the chagrin of the left, there could be a fifth.

As amazing news from the Korean peninsula continues to break, it looks increasingly possible that the decades-long hostilities between North and South Korea may finally be resolved in a peaceful manner … and Donald Trump played a major role in the process.

Now, President Trump has been officially nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by over a dozen members of Congress.

“We, the undersigned members of the United States Congress, respectfully nominate President Donald J. Trump to receive the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his work to end the Korean War, denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, and bring peace to the region,” states a letter signed by 18 lawmakers.

“Since taking office, President Trump has worked tirelessly to apply maximum pressure on North Korea to end its illicit weapons program and bring peace to the region,” the official nomination letter continues.

“His Administration successfully united the international community, including China, to impose one of the most successful international sanctions regimes in history.”

Almost nobody predicted that talks in Korea would move as fast as they did, and events have moved so quickly that there is still some doubt about whether or not North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is actually serious about keeping his word.

Nevertheless, Korean officials and even liberals have been forced to admit that Trump played a huge role in what appears to be a promising peace process.

Do you believe Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions in regard to North Korea?

“Clearly, credit goes to President Trump,” the South Korea foreign minister explained last week. “He’s been determined to come to grips with this from day one.”

“If President Trump could truly solve this problem, that would be going down as a great president,” CNN — yes, CNN! — host Erin Burnett admitted back in March. “There is no getting around that.”

Last week, history was made when Kim Jong Un became the first North Korean leader to ever enter South Korea. As part of the peace process, the 1950s-era Korean War was officially declared over by both countries.

Trump was savaged by the media for months after taking a very stern tone with North Korea. His hard-line message was mocked by liberals who openly feared that the president would incite nuclear war.

In fact, it seems that the carrot-and-stick approach has brought precisely the opposite. It turns out that negotiating from a position of strength may have been a pretty good strategy after all. We won’t hold our breath for the Trump-hating left to admit it.

So far, the only U.S. presidents who have received the Nobel Peace Prize are Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama.

If anything, Obama receiving the honor just months after taking office in 2009 demonstrates that the prize is not nearly as serious or powerful as it once was; still, it would be a great honor and a fitting dish of crow if Trump did actually win.

Many events still need to unfold in Korea for this chance at peace to become permanent, but one thing is clear: The entire Trump presidency so far has shown that “experts” are often incredibly wrong.

They were wrong about Trump losing the election. They were wrong about the economy crashing. And, thankfully, it looks like they might have been dramatically wrong about the best approach to take in regard to North Korea.

What do you think?