The tension between Trump and Kim Jong-un was so concerning to top security officials, a new book alleges, that they held multiple meetings to prepare for a North Korean nuclear attack against the United States.
Kim as “Rocket Man … on a suicide mission” while speaking at the United Nations a month later, adding that the U.S. was prepared to “totally destroyed North Korea.”
Taylor writes that Homeland Security brass met on multiple occasions to discuss the escalating tension, and that experts laid “various scenarios of a nuclear strike on the U.S. homeland, dusted off response plans, and outlined best-case scenarios which nevertheless sounded horrifically grim.”confirmed such meetings took place with Chris Krebs, another former Homeland Security official.
“In the national security world, anything having to do with nuclear weapons is handled with extreme sensitivity — well planned, carefully scripted — yet we didn’t know what Trump might say at any given moment,” Taylor explains in his new book, adding that with his “fire and fury” comments Trump “almost seemed to welcome a nuclear conflict, which terrified us.
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