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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions, new book says
Source: The Guardian
Trump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions, new book says
Presidents diktat was ignored by his top officials, Peter Bergen writes in Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos
Julian Borger in Washington
Tue 10 Dec 2019 02.25 GMT
Last modified on Tue 10 Dec 2019 02.31 GMT
Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the presidents relations with the US military.
In Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen also gives new details of Trumps demands that the families of US service members in South Korea be evacuated, which the North Korean regime would have interpreted as a clear move towards war. In both cases, Trumps impetuous diktats were ignored by his top officials.
Bergens book, the latest in a string of accounts of the presidents erratic leadership on national security issues, is being published on Tuesday at a time when friction between Washington and Pyongyang is once more on the rise, after more than 18 months of detente and summitry. The North Korean leadership is threatening a resumption of missile tests, and a war of words between Trump and Kim Jong-un is simmering once more.
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In his book, Bergen a vice-president of the New America thinktank describes an Oval Office meeting on North Korea in mid-April 2017, after a string of North Korean missile tests. Trumps top national security officials were present and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency had made a model of a secret North Korean facility the size of coffee table, to illustrate the regimes covert programmes.
According to Bergen, Trump was also shown a satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night, showing the lights of China and South Korea and the blackness of North Korea in between. Trump initially mistook the void for an ocean. When he was shown the bright lights of Seoul just 30 miles south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, the president asked: Why is Seoul so close to the North Korean border?
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Presidents diktat was ignored by his top officials, Peter Bergen writes in Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos
Julian Borger in Washington
Tue 10 Dec 2019 02.25 GMT
Last modified on Tue 10 Dec 2019 02.31 GMT
Donald Trump called for the population of Seoul to be moved during an Oval Office meeting when tensions between the US and North Korea were at their height, according to a new book about the presidents relations with the US military.
In Trump and his Generals: The Cost of Chaos, the national security and counter-terrorism expert Peter Bergen also gives new details of Trumps demands that the families of US service members in South Korea be evacuated, which the North Korean regime would have interpreted as a clear move towards war. In both cases, Trumps impetuous diktats were ignored by his top officials.
Bergens book, the latest in a string of accounts of the presidents erratic leadership on national security issues, is being published on Tuesday at a time when friction between Washington and Pyongyang is once more on the rise, after more than 18 months of detente and summitry. The North Korean leadership is threatening a resumption of missile tests, and a war of words between Trump and Kim Jong-un is simmering once more.
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In his book, Bergen a vice-president of the New America thinktank describes an Oval Office meeting on North Korea in mid-April 2017, after a string of North Korean missile tests. Trumps top national security officials were present and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency had made a model of a secret North Korean facility the size of coffee table, to illustrate the regimes covert programmes.
According to Bergen, Trump was also shown a satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night, showing the lights of China and South Korea and the blackness of North Korea in between. Trump initially mistook the void for an ocean. When he was shown the bright lights of Seoul just 30 miles south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, the president asked: Why is Seoul so close to the North Korean border?
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/09/trump-seoul-evacuation-north-korea-book
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Trump called for Seoul evacuation at height of North Korea tensions, new book says (Original Post)
Eugene
Dec 2019
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madaboutharry
(40,245 posts)1. Trump is an ignoramus.
His ignorance puts the world in peril.
Everyone of his enablers is committing a crime against humanity.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)2. trump is compromised
While Kim with putin are taking advantage of him now, also with Edogan. He's sold out SK and Japan by allowing Kim to test and fully develop and build up a nuclear arsonal.
tanyev
(42,663 posts)3. I'm sure they quickly learned that meetings with Donny went much better
if he had his phone and spent most of the meeting distracted by Twitter. If he said something, just pause, let him finish, say, "That's an interesting idea, Mr. President--we'll get someone to look into that", and then go back to whatever the grownups were talking about before the idiot interrupted them.
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)4. How would he have managed to relocate 10 million people?
maryellen99
(3,790 posts)5. Bob Woodward also mentioned this in Fear as well.
He threatened this more than once and Mattis always told him no.