Donald Trump greenlit a daring mission to send Navy SEALs into North Korea to bug Jim Jong Un before the operation unraveled after the soldiers killed several fishermen and fled, a bombshell new report reveals.
The audacious plot unfolded in early 2019 as Trump was locked in high-stakes nuclear talks with Kim to limit the hostile nation’s nuclear program.
With negotiations moving forward, Trump was set for the first of two face-to-face meetings with Kim in Vietnam, and military officials presented a plan to have a SEAL team covertly move in.
The mission was given to SEAL Team 6, the same unit that took out Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.
But despite months of rehearsals to sneak to the North Korean coast in submarines and plant the device before leaving undetected the operation quickly went sideways, a new report from The New York Times claims.
According to military officials who spoke with the outlet, the SEALs only got onto the beach for a short time before they were spotted by a sailing vessel.
Fearing that the vessel was North Korean military, the SEALs opened fire and killed around three people on board before puncturing their lungs to ensure their bodies would sink to the ocean floor.
This is a major leak if true. Reeks of treason. ABN
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