Posted on 09/05/2025 1:29:49 PM PDT by rktman
A group of Navy SEALs penetrated North Korea in early 2019 in an attempt to compromise North Korea's nuclear communications channel. The mission may or may not have been compromised, and the resulting shootout, according to The New York Times, left a handful of North Koreans, possibly civilians, dead. The question is, why is this story running now?
The Mission
In 2018, as President Trump was engaged in high-wire nuclear diplomacy with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a Navy SEAL team was dispatched on a high-risk, high-payoff mission to bug the communications network used to discuss nuclear strategy and operations. The reason was simple: without accurate intelligence on North Korea's capabilities and intentions, President Trump couldn't complete what could be a significant diplomatic breakthrough.
Technical intelligence collection had come up dry, and flipping sources inside North Korea's nuclear weapons sector had proven impossible. The solution was the good, old-fashioned, black bag job. A SEAL team would land and insert a high-tech "bug" in the secure communications line. It was basically a land version of Operation Ivy Bells.
The mission obviously started with a tasking order from the White House, probably to examine the feasibility of the operation. US Special Operations Command received the mission, developed an operational concept, and briefed President Trump. President Trump signed off on the mission.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
rom the New York Times!
The CIA is trying to stop President Trump from taking out the Cartels and narco-terrorist regimes. They know he’s using special ops and want to stop it. That’s why this is coming out now, just after the U.S. taking out the Venezuelan drug boat. Look how long ago the North Korean incident took place. Now, all-of-a-sudden it is leaked.
As earlier..... Grrrrrrrrrr!
Because the Slimes has NOTHING better to do than dig up something to harm Trump, meanwhile they covered up for Biden for FOUR DAMN YEARS
This is explosive.
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” There must be an all-out effort to find the leakers and put them in prison for 25 years so it never happens again. “
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This ^
it’s very simple...
drill down on the leak, find the source, put them in jail.
DO NOT let it go unpunished
Perhaps a planted story highlighting failure when in fact it had a different outcome?
Interesting
What do you mean?
I’d tell The Slimes “Show us your receipts or shut up!”. Yeah, that would tell them.
They need to find out who leaked this, confirm they are the ones, and then do to them what was done to the NKs. Never to be heard from again. Forget putting these leakers in prison. Put them in the ground (or sea). Make an example of them. This is serious stuff. Sorry, but enough is enough.
Time to break out the lie detector machines.
Bkmk
Otherwise, there is so much classified information in this story that someone needs to be shot. Not a lifetime in Leavenworth - firing squad.
Which explains the timing of this story; an obvious attempt to discredit Trump and paint him as reckless. To wit, two passages of this story in particular raise questions about its veracity and accuracy:
That might have been a second mistake. Bobbing in the darkness was a small boat. On board was a crew of North Koreans who were easy to miss because the sensors in the SEALs’ night-vision goggles were designed in part to detect heat, and the wet suits the Koreans wore were chilled by the cold seawater.
Boat engines generate a lot of heat which would likely have been detectable with thermal imaging gear. The SEALS would have seen the heat signature. Unless there was a severe fuel shortage it's very unlikely that the Norks would be out there rowing a boat in the dark of night in the ocean.
Back at the mini-subs, the pilots repositioned the sub that was facing the wrong way.
Pure BS. The subs have sophisticated nav systems. They know which direction they are facing.
Thanks for that. I’m deciding that this entire story is pure BS.
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