As the journal writes, based on information from the initiated persons in the case, the unsuccessful mission took place in winter at the beginning of 2019, against the background of Donald Trump's attempts to prompt Kim's regime to abandon the nuclear program. The Eal Team 6 commandos team was designed to secretly arrive to the shore of North Korea and install a special device that was to enable Kim Jong Una's communication wiretap, which, according to the journal, was a gap in the US spy abilities.
The mission, carried out at night in icy waters and in the absence of communication, was, however, unsuccessful, because after going ashore, the commandos noticed nearby Łódź and fearing that they were noticed, killed three members of its crew. As it turned out later, they were fishermen setting out for crustaceans. Commandos were to pierce the lungs of the dead to make sure that their bodies would not flow to the surface. Due to the risk of detection, they could not install the device.
Trump did not inform the Congress
After this incident, the US services were to record an increase in the activity of the North Korean army, but Pyongyang never hinted that he was aware of what happened at the time. According to the US daily, they were afraid that the detection of a mission could lead to war with the Kim regime, which has thousands of departments aimed at Seul at the border. The report prepared after the mission stated that the murder of civilians was justified, and some team members later received a promotion.
Despite this, the US Congress was not informed about the mission, which supervises the operation of the services. This was done by the successor of Trump, Joe Biden, who ordered the investigation.
Commandos were to go near the Korean coast on board a submarine with an atomic drive, and then go to the shore on board mini-submarines in insulated overalls. According to “NYT”, this was not the first operation of the US special forces in North Korea. Other commandos Seals arrived there in 2005 in 2005, but the daily does not reveal the details of this mission. The newspaper notes, however, that the North Korean mission was one of the series that ended in failure, mentioning, among others Missions on Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia. The loud defeat of the Operation in Yemen in 2017, during which 30 residents of one of the villages and one commando were killed, after the procedures regarding such missions by Trump.
