Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has said that he would be willing to go to North Korea should the Trump administration ask him.
 
In an interview with the New York Times published on Saturday, he said he is afraid of tensions created by harsh rhetoric between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as he is not sure what the North will do in order to save the regime. He added that Americans greatly overestimate China’s influence on the North, particularly on Kim.
 
Carter said Kim makes him more nervous than his father and that the young leader could make a preemptive move if he thought Trump was going to act against him.
 
He added that he believes that the North has “advanced nuclear weaponry that can destroy the Korean Peninsula and Japan” and some of the U.S.’ outlying territories in the Pacific, potentially even the U.S. mainland. 

Carter said he has talked to Lt. Gen. Herbert McMaster, Trump’s national security adviser, about his offer, but has so far gotten a negative response.

In an editorial in the Washington Post at the beginning of this month, Carter suggested that the U.S. should send a high-level delegation to Pyongyang for peace talks or support an international conference including North and South Korea, the United States and China.

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