He's done it before.
>> Carter said all the North Korean officials he had met, including the former leader Kim Il-sung, had told him that all they wanted were direct talks with the US to negotiate a peace treaty to replace the uneasy ceasefire reached at the end of the 1950-53 Korean war.
Attempts to pressure the North into abandoning its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes will fail for as long as the regime believes its survival is at stake, Carter wrote.
“The next step should be for the United States to offer to send a high-level delegation to Pyongyang for peace talks or to support an international conference including North and South Korea, the United States and China, at a mutually acceptable site.”
Carter’s brand of gentle diplomacy has won concessions from the North Koreans before.
In 1994, during Bill Clinton’s presidency, he persuaded Kim Il-sung to
freeze his country’s nuclear programme in a deal that may have averted conflict with the US.
In August 2010, he
secured the release of Aijalon Gomes, an American who had been sentenced to eight years in prison for entering North Korea illegally. <<
Pretty sad when your head of state is so incompetent that the novagenarian guy before the last guy before the last guy before the last guy before the last guy before the last guy has to volunteer with "if you can't do it, I will"..