Short version: Bunch of Jarheads tried to sneak into North Korea to plant a listening device on Trump’s orders, got spotted immediately, killed the witnesses, sank their bodies, then immediately ran back home
Short version: Bunch of Jarheads tried to sneak into North Korea to plant a listening device on Trump’s orders, got spotted immediately, killed the witnesses, sank their bodies, then immediately ran back home
DPRK would know about this right? There is no way that some bodies full of bullets with knife wounds to their lungs wouldn’t immediately be flagged as US special ops. Nobody else would be doing it.
Anyway release of this information is probably intended to create paranoia. The DPRK would know about the op but wouldn’t know its intent, releasing this information out there will create a reaction. If they tried this op once, they would try it again, so the assumption the DPRK has to make is that they probably successfully installed whatever it is they wanted to install. Basically this is america trying to say to DPRK that “we know what you’re planning” and instill a good amount of paranoia in the process.
I’m sure the DPRK knew. At the end of the article they present the fact that the talks between the DPRK and USA less than a month later fell apart quickly and the DPRK quickly resumed missile testing as some tangentially related fact. I’m sure they had a strong suspicion that it was the US and Trump probably said some dumb shit that confirmed it during the talks they had scheduled so the DPRK dropped it all.
Besides who else but the roided up drug crazed US special forces would shoot civilians then stab them repeatedly to “let the air out of their lungs so they’d sink”?