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The ‘Korea Mission Center (Korea Center)’ of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which was established in May 2017, in the early days of the Donald Trump administration, was established to prepare a operation to overthrow the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un if President Trump ordered it. Watergate special reporter Bob Woodward, deputy editor of the Washington Post (WP) argued.
Woodward’s new book ‘Rage’, published on the 15th (local time), was obtained and reviewed in advance on the 13th by this magazine, which contained the secret history of the establishment of the CIA Korea Center.
According to Woodward, on January 26, 2017, six days after President Trump took office, a meeting was held at the White House to make political decisions on North Korea. When former President Barack Obama retired, he told Trump that “North Korea is the biggest and most dangerous threat.” Faced with this situation, the White House drafted nine scenarios, from the recognition of North Korea as a nuclear power, to the covert operation of the CIA or the change of regime through military attacks. President Trump opted for a “ maximum pressure ” operation that generated double military, economic and diplomatic pressure.
In early March, then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo met Andrew Kim, a retired Korean CIA agent. Woodward evaluated Andrew Kim as “a legendary agent who has worked not only in Seoul, but also in Tokyo, Beijing, Warsaw, Hong Kong and Bangkok.” Andrew Kim said at this meeting: “We need to gather hundreds of North Korean experts scattered around the CIA in one place.” “It takes a lot of budget.” The CIA budget plan was already in place, but Pompeo said, “I’ll apply.” So Andrew Kim returned to the CIA to become the director of the Korea Center, and hundreds of CIA analysts and agents gathered in one place.
North Korea was the first to create a center within the CIA for a specific country, not for a wide range of regions like the Middle East and Europe. In a statement at the time, Pompeo said, “North Korea is seriously threatening the United States and its allies. The establishment of the Korea Mission Center is aimed at leading a more integrated and decisive response to these threats.”
It is not known exactly what they are doing at the CIA’s Korea Center. However, Woodward said: “Minister Mattis (Defense) planned a military operation (against North Korea) and Secretary Tillerson (secretary of state) made a diplomatic effort.” “Andrew Kim would not hide the North Korean leader if President Trump approves the operation. I planned a covert action to overthrow.” Hundreds of analysts and CIA operatives gathered to create the center, explaining that it was to secretly try to overthrow the Kim Jong-un regime in North Korea.
