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Yesterday's HN post on the story, with some discussion, but was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143759 [flagged] US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission (reuters.com) 68 points by hnlurker22 1 day ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 28 comments
It’s possible that Bolton was national security advisor at the time. The timing of this coverage might be to implicate him now.
Yesterday's HN post on the story, with some discussion, but was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143759 [flagged] US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission (reuters.com) 68 points by hnlurker22 1 day ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 28 comments
Why was this flagged? Absolute worst feature of HN, I don’t know why it continues.
To answer your question, imagine HN's frontpage saturated by stories that you would consider entirely offtopic and sensational. To a first approximation, that's what HN would be for everyone if it weren't for user flags.
Of course the system is imperfect and overcorrects. But the presence of the current post on the frontpage already shows that sometimes—often, in fact—the overcorrection gets adjusted.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article says it was in 'Early 2019' and he was NSA until September, so he was surely at the helm. But it also says Trump greenlit the mission, so I'm not sure how an advisor would be implicated in anything - unless your point is that the current admin thinks he might be the source for this story?
How are you relating NSA with the Navy?
Not as bad as Bay of Pigs, but despicable nonetheless. Kudos to the journalists who surfaced this.
[deleting this -- now that the source for the article has been changed, my comment is not as relevant]
Not sure why the source for the article was changed (never seen - or at least never noticed - that on HN before). For anyone interested, the original source was: https://reason.com/2025/09/05/navy-seals-reportedly-killed-n...
I've added such a comment to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155452 now, which is where it would usually go.
> The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea and then deploy a small team of SEALs in two mini-subs, each about the size of a killer whale The lengths some people willing to go just not to use the metric system
A football field is close to 100m, independently of whether people manage the balls with their feet or with their hands.
Upstream reporting: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-...
[deleting this -- now that the source for the article has been changed, my comment is not as relevant]
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