Elite of the United States of the United States launched a bold operation in 2019 to plant a listening device in North Korea to spy on the country’s lonely leader, Kim Jong Un, The New York Times (NYT) on Friday, but the mission quickly fell apart and culminated in the death of multiple civilians.
The operation occurred in the first administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, during sensitive nuclear conversations with Kim, whom the US leader met three times.
The mission was considered so risky that the direct presidential approval required, the NYT He said, but Trump insisted on Friday that he had no knowledge of the operation.
“I don’t know anything about it. I listen to it for the first time,” the president told reporters.
Despite the months of practice, the mission still went terribly bad, the * NYT * reported.
The stamps, of the same unit that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, approached North Korea in mini underwater that exposed them to Frigides Agua for hours, then swam on the ground, according to the newspaper, which interviewed two dozens of people to gather the account.
The special forces staff thought they were alone, but did not see a small boat in the area. Later, the boat approached the Mini-Subs, with the crew carrying flashlights. A person jumped into the water.
Thinking that the mission was compromised, the seal enlisted on the ground on the boat opened fire in the boat, just like the others with him. When they reached the boat, they found two or three bodies, but not weapons or uniforms: the dead were civilians who divered by seafood.
The stamps used knives to pierce the lungs of the pot crew so that the bodies sink and can escape unharmed.
He NYT Said the operation caused a series of military reviews that found that the murders were justified. The results of the reviews were classified, and the key leaders of the congress remained in the dark.
Although the failed mission did not create an important international crisis, it could easily have done so, and the incident highlights both impunity and the secret under which the United States elite forces operate throughout the world.
