JIMMY CARTER: WOULD TRAVEL TO N KOREA FOR CRISIS TALKS
NEWYORK: Former US President Jimmy Carter said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the Donald Trump administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on its website.
“I would go, yes,” Carter, 93, told the Times when he was asked in an interview whether it was time for another diplomatic mission and whether he would do so for Trump.
Carter, who was president from 1977 to 1981, said he had spoken to Trump’ s national security adviser HR McMaster, but so far has gotten a negative response.
Told that some 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.”
In the mid 1990s, Carter traveled to Pyongyang over the objections of then president Bill Clinton and struck a deal with Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current leader.