Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize after North Korea summit
Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching an agreement to work towards denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, following his Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un.
Christian Tybring-Gjedde and Per-Willy Amundsen, Norwegian lawmakers with the populist Progress Party, said that Trump “had taken a huge and important step in the direction of the disarmament, peace and reconciliation between North and South Korea”.
“What’s going on now is historic,” Amundsen told NRK.
“A process is underway to ensure world peace in the future. It’s a fragile process, but we must of course do what we can to help this process bring good results.”
A group of US lawmakers are also backing Trump’s nomination for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
The process of considering candidates and awarding the Nobel Peace Prize is done in Norway. Nominations must be sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee before February 1.
The Nobel Committee in Oslo typically receives hundreds of nominations each year, and past candidates have also included Russian President Vladimir Putin and Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
The committee doesn’t publicly comment on who was nominated, information which is required to be kept secret for 50 years.
A record 330 people were nominated this year.
