On Wednesday, Tolley offered his take.
“After further review of the reporting, I feel I was accurately quoted,” he said. “In my attempt to explain where technology could help us, I spoke in the present tense. I realize I wasn’t clear in how I presented my remarks.”
He insisted, however, that the United States has at no time sent special operations forces into North Korea.
Such cross-border operations into North Korea would be in violation of the 1953 armistice agreement that brought the Korean War to an end.
The existence of such operations would also jeopardize already strained and sensitive relations between Washington and Pyongyang.
By: Brant
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