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After Obama, a Nobel prize for Trump -- or not so fast?

US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a handful of Republican lawmakers, and if he won, would be the fourth American president to do so. (AFP)

A decade after Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, could his White House successor Donald Trump follow suit for navigating the thorny North Korean nuclear standoff?

The very idea, put forward by a handful of Republican lawmakers in a Wednesday letter nominating the US president for the esteemed award, is enough to make his American and international detractors cringe.

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