Trump should get the Nobel peace prize, says South Korea

DONALD Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the stand-off between South and North Korea, the South’s president has declared.

President Moon Jae-in made the comment in response to a suggestion that he should receive the prestigious award as the two nations took huge steps towards ending years of hostility over the North’s nuclear weapons testing.

Mr Moon, who has previously claimed that Mr Trump ‘deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks’, said last night: ‘President Trump can take the Nobel prize. The only thing we need is peace.’

Mr Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged on Friday to end hostilities between their two countries and work towards the ‘complete denuclearisation’ of the Korean peninsula during the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.

Mr Trump was previously condemned for sending belligerent threats and personal insults to Mr Kim over Twitter, mockingly referring to the dictator as ‘little rocket man’ and threatening to unleash ‘fire and fury’ on his rogue state.

But on January 4, Mr Trump tweeted: ‘With all of the failed “experts” weighing in, does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and South Korea right now if I wasn’t firm, strong and willing to commit our total “might” against the North.’

Mr Trump is preparing for his own summit with Mr Kim in late May or early June, which officials revealed was the main subject of a private walk and chat that Mr Kim and Mr Moon had during their historic meeting at the border.

Yesterday the US President said revelations by Israel that Iran had been developing its own secret nuclear weapons programme was ‘ not acceptable’. Mr Trump has long threatened to scrap a deal that ended crippling economic sanctions against Iran in return for abandoning its nuclear ambitions, which it had always claimed were solely for energy purposes.

÷ The porn actress who claims she had an affair with Donald Trump is now suing the President for defamation. At issue is a tweet in which Mr Trump mockingly dismissed a sketch that Stormy Daniels says depicts a man who threatened her in 2011 to stay quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with Mr Trump.

The court filing says that the President’s tweet was ‘false and defamatory’.

‘Failed experts weighing in’