Gov. Kay Ivey threw her support behind President Donald Trump’s nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize through a letter on Tuesday.
Ivey singed the letter to the Nobel Committee along with six other governors supporting the president’s nomination.
“Though he has only been in office one year, President Trump has achieved an unprecedented victory for global peace and security,” the letter read.
Ivey gave her own comments over Twitter.
“He is due to be honored for his ability to bring everyone to the table to discuss a way which offers the Korean Peninsula & world a path to peace,” Ivey said on Twitter.
Ivey is not alone in the calls for the president to receive a prize and even South Korean officials have credited Trump’s policies to pressuring North Korea into a peace talk.
Trump himself has declined to say if he should receive the award, but did say he wanted “victory for the world” in the Oval Office last Wednesday.
The Korean Peninsula has recently seen an era of peace after a period of tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program. Last year, North Korea successfully tested a hydrogen bomb and they have launched missiles over Japan.
Trump’s initial response was hawkish insisting that the United States would destroy North Korea if it continued hostilities and even gave North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un the nickname “rocket man.”
Over the past 5 months, however, the two Koreas have come closer to peace with the two countries even competing in the Winter Olympics over the same flag.
Recently, Kim Jong-un visited South Korea for peace talks, and Trump is scheduled to talk to him in Singapore in June.
