U.S. President Donald Trump after meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un | Win McNamee/Getty Images Two Norwegian politicians nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize Nomination comes after historic meeting with North Korean leader.

Donald Trump, who on Tuesday became the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a North Korean leader, has been nominated as a candidate for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

The U.S. president took "a huge and important step in the direction of the disarmament, peace and reconciliation between North and South Korea," Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of Norway's right-wing Progress Party and one of two lawmakers to put forward the nomination, told Norwegian media.

Tuesday's Trump-Kim summit saw the two leaders sign a joint agreement in which they committed to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and which Trump declared Wednesday means there is "no longer" a nuclear threat from North Korea.

A group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this year also backed Trump's nomination for the prestigious award.

In May, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson said that if Trump was able to"fix" the North Korean crisis, then he saw no reason why the U.S. president would be "any less of a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama."

The Norwegian Nobel Committee does not publicly comment on nominations, which it keeps secret for 50 years.