U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un could be line a Nobel Peace Prize. The two leaders have a chance winning the award their historic meeting in Singapore on Tuesday. Betting companies have cut their odds one or both them getting the prestigious prize. President Trump is now 2/1 to get it, either alone or as part a team. North Korea giving its nuclear weapons and the USA stopping its "war games" with South Korea would definitely make the world a safer place. Asle Sveen, a Nobel Prize historian, said: "If [there was] real disarmament the Korean peninsula, it would be very difficult to not award them the prize."
The historic meeting President Trump and Chairman Kim will go in history as a key event the early twenty-first century. It was the first time ever that a sitting U.S. President and a North Korean leader have met. The two men shook hands, met private, had lunch together, and signed an agreement that promised a better future together. Some people say the two leaders do not deserve the prize. They say that the world is less secure because President Trump withdrew the Paris Climate Agreement and destabilized the Iran nuclear deal. The critics also point to human rights issues North Korea. Other people say South Korean President Moon Jae-in deserves the prize.
