{"id":73966,"date":"2025-09-05T23:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/commando-team-north-korea-civilians-2019-mission"},"modified":"2025-09-05T23:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:28:18","slug":"us-navy-seals-killed-north-korean-civilians-in-botched-2019-mission-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73966","title":{"rendered":"US Navy Seals killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times says Trump authorized mission to plant listening device; team killed fishers they encountered<\/p>\n<p>US Navy Seals shot and killed a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korean<\/a> civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-armed country during high-stakes diplomatic negotiations in 2019, the New York Times reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Citing unidentified sources, including current and former military officials with knowledge of the still-classified details, the newspaper said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> approved the operation during his first administration, as he was involved in historic talks with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/commando-team-north-korea-civilians-2019-mission\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times says Trump authorized mission to plant listening device; team killed fishers they encounteredUS Navy Seals shot and killed a number of North Korean civilians during a botched covert mission to plant a listening device in the nuclear-arme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,415,421,40,554,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-trump-administration","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73966\/revisions\/73967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}