President Donald Trump has claimed that he was totally unaware of a botched Navy SEAL mission in 2019 that ended with the deaths of multiple North Korean civilians.

On Friday, the New York Times reported that Trump personally gave the go-ahead for a mission that was intended to give the U.S. the capability to intercept North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s communications.

“I could look, but I don’t know anything about it,” the president said on Friday when a reporter asked about the mission. “I’m hearing it now for the first time.”

The aborted mission in North Korea was conducted by SEAL Team 6’s Red Squadron—the unit that killed Osama bin Laden eight years earlier, according to the Times.

However, the members of the elite squadron made several mistakes when approaching the North Korea

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