Trump 'almost sent tweet that North Korea would have seen as warning of attack'
Source: The Guardian/AFP
Journalist Bob Woodward says moment was most dangerous point of president’s standoff with Pyongyang
Agence France-Presse
Sun 9 Sep 2018 20.33 EDT Last modified on Mon 10 Sep 2018 10.05 EDT
US President Donald Trump spooked the Pentagon leadership with a tweet that – had it been sent – would have been read by North Korea as a sign of an imminent US attack, journalist Bob Woodward has said in an interview.
Woodward, whose new book Fear: Trump in the White House hits book stores on Tuesday, described the incident in the interview with CBS as the most dangerous moment of Trump’s nuclear standoff with North Korea.
“He drafts a tweet saying ‘We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea – family members of the 28,000 people there,’” Woodward said, referring to families of US troops stationed on the Korean peninsula.
The tweet was never sent because of a back-channel message from the North Koreans that they would view it as a sign the US was preparing to attack, according to CBS.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/10/trump-almost-sent-tweet-north-korea-imminent-attack
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