Pentagon had to intervene and stop a tweet by US President Donald Trump before being interpreted by North Koreans as a sign of an upcoming war, says a veteran journalist who has written a book about the president.
Trump had apparently tweeted that Washington is pulling out its dependents from South Korea, signifying an imminent onset of a war to depose Pyongyang, Bob Woodward said in an interview with CBS.
“He drafts a tweet saying, ‘We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea — family members of the 28,000 people there’,” said the renowned Watergate journalist. “At that moment, there was a sense of profound alarm in the Pentagon leadership that, ‘My God, one tweet and we have reliable information that the North Koreans are going to read this as ‘an attack is imminent.”
The veteran journalist has been promoting his book, which describes a paranoid White House under the New York billionaire, called Fear: Trump in…