Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (C) waves upon his arrival at the airport in Pyongyang, April 26, 2011, in this handout photo distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency. REUTERS/Xinhua/Zhao Zhan/Handout
Kim Joong Ang Daily: Jimmy Carter hopes to meet with North’s Kim
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has expressed a desire to visit Pyongyang as a messenger between the United States and North Korea, Park Han-shik, an emeritus professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, said Sunday.
“Carter wants to meet with the North Korean leader and play a constructive role for peace on the Korean Peninsula as he did in 1994,” Park, 78, told the JoongAng Ilbo over phone after meeting with the 93-year-old former president.
Park, a prominent scholar of North Korea-related issues who has traveled to Pyongyang over 50 times, visited Carter, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work with the Atlanta-based Carter Center, at the former president’s home in Plains, Georgia, on Sept. 28.
“Should former President Carter be able to visit North Korea, he would like to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and discuss a peace treaty between the United States and the North and a complete denuclearization of North Korea,” Park said, “and contribute toward establishing a permanent peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.”
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WNU Editor: Former President Carter would be going to North Korea on a personal trip, he will not be representing the U.S. government. The North Koreans know this .... which is why they will receive him (if they let him come), listen to him, .... and then send him off. This trip will accomplish nothing, but it will give the impression in Asia that the U.S. is looking for a way out .... which is the wrong message to send now.
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