Overview

• The operation sought to plant an electronic device to intercept Kim Jong Un’s communications during nuclear talks, according to interviews cited by the New York Times.
• SEAL Team 6’s Red Squadron trained for months and deployed from a nuclear-powered submarine using two mini-subs before swimming toward shore.
• After a small North Korean boat approached, SEALs opened fire, killing two or three people later assessed as unarmed shellfish divers, then aborted the mission and withdrew.
• Officials told reporters that key congressional intelligence overseers were not briefed before or after the mission, which legal experts say may violate notification requirements, and the White House and Pentagon declined comment.
• Some operational details, including claims about disposing of bodies, rest on limited anonymous sourcing without independent corroboration, and reporting also references a rarely disclosed 2005 mini-sub insertion.