Washington – President Donald Trump said on Friday that he did not know “anything” about what the New York Times reported was the South Cell 2019 mission in North Korea in which North North North Armed civilians were killed during an unknown operation.
The Pentagon Special Operations Command refused New York Times report.
ABC News has not confirmed the details in the report.
Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Friday, Trump correspondent was asked: “Can you make sure that this happens?”
He replied, “I don’t know anything about it. I now hear for the first time.”
He said that the account, referring to “twenty people, including civilian government officials, members of the first Trump administration and the current and former military individuals who have knowledge of the mission” who spoke to the unidentified Times, Trump agreed to the mission.
The Times said that the SEAL TEAM 6 commando team to plant a device “would allow the United States to fill the connections of the isolated leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, amid high -level nuclear talks with President Trump.”
In the image of the file on June 30, 2019, President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the border village in Bannunmomon in the beard area, South Korea.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
The Times newspaper reported that members of the United States team were afraid that they would be monitored by a North Korean boat that was approaching the region, according to the Times. The seals opened the fire, killing everything traveling on the boat, according to the Times.
Upon inspection, none of the people in the boat were armed, the Times reported, “suggested that the crew, which the people had informed of the mission, said that a number or three people were civilians for oysters.”
The seals returned to its large nuclear powder divers and fled from the North Korea coast without discovery, according to the Times.
The account said that no one in the Trump administration had reported the Congress of the failed mission.
-Abc news’ Cindy Smith, Anne Flahrty and Luke Barr contributed to this report.
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