Irvin Studdin, South China Morning Post: It’s no joke: the North Korean nuclear crisis could get Trump the Nobel Peace Prize
The US president’s unpredictability has pushed the peninsula to the brink of nuclear war, but it’s that same caprice that could save us all from Armageddon.
The presidency of Donald Trump has made the dividing line between nuclear war and a Nobel Peace Prize increasingly thin. The very same extreme caprice and disregard for precedent that have amplified the military pressure and posturing on the Korean peninsula over the past year can quickly transform the logic of the endgame to one of spectacular peace and reconciliation.
To be clear, if the thinking in Washington today no longer excludes the idea of pre-emptive and, by likely implication, nuclear war with North Korea, then the prospect of near-term escalation in the domestic crisis surrounding the White House could soon yield to a “consolidation action” – in military form – by Trump that launches Asia and the world into a massive war.
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WNU Editor: Not going to happen. Even if President Trump solves the North Korean crisis peacefully .... and a few other conflicts around the world .... tThe Nobel committee in Oslo is so far to the left and completely opposite to everything that President Trump believes in .... that they would prefer to commit seppuku than bestowing him the Nobel Peace Prize.
