Former President Jimmy Carter has offered to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, according to a new report.
“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 Han-shik, an emeritus professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, told South Korean news agency Korea JoongAng Daily.
Park said he visited Carter at his home in 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.
Carter wants to “prevent a second Korean War,” Park added.
President Trump and Kim have been in a war of words in recent weeks.
Trump issued a cryptic warning Saturday, saying “only one thing will work” against North Korea.
A report Tuesday said the president is considering a visit to the Korean Peninsula’s Demilitarized Zone when he tours Asia next month.
