Getting in and out of North Korea undetected is not an easy task, but is one that BTJ has had to do on several occasions. The United States Navy learned first-hand how difficult the task really was when they sent in their most elite unit, SEAL Team 6, to sneak into and out of the country undetected.
It was harder than they thought and innocent people died as a result.
The elite special forces unit SEAL Team 6 – the same one that killed former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in – was tasked with sneaking into North Korea and planting a listening device to spy on the country’s leadership prior to a meeting with President Donald Trump in 2019.
According to the report, the Navy SEAL Team were working in the dead of night with blackout communications during a time when winter waters were freezing. This would allow for the best time to move in undetected, but as the team got close to the shore, they inadvertently made noise, startling a small fishing boat with divers.
Not knowing if the men were armed or not, and unsure if the vessel had the ability to radio others, the SEALs opened fire, killing all those on board. According to the report, the number of North Koreans that were killed that cold winters night is still unknown.
Once aboard the North Korean vessel, the Naval Special Warfare fighters didn’t find any weapons or communication devices. The fisherman were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
The bodies of the North Koreans were dumped into the water so that they would be hidden from North Korean authorities. Then the SEALs “punctured the boat crew’s lungs with knives to make sure their bodies would sink.”
After the fishermen were killed, the mission was aborted and the SEALs left the shores of North Korea, unable to get their listening devices into the country.
President Trump was asked about the incident earlier this month, but denied all knowledge of it.
This month, BTJ has been working with missionaries who have taken on the dangerous role of smuggling Bibles into North Korea. The story about the botched Navy SEAL operations is a stark reminder of the extremely dangerous and life threatening nature of what BTJ missionaries do in North Korea on a daily basis.
To learn more about the work that the BTJ missionaries are doing in North Korea today, click on the link below:
