https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-reported-violent-failed-seal-team-6-mission/story?id=125300720

President Donald Trump said Friday he didn't know "anything" about what the New York Times reported was a classified 2019 SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea in which unarmed North Korean civilians were killed during an aborted operation.

The Pentagon and U.S. Special Operations Command declined to comment to ABC News about The New York Times report.

Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office on Friday, Trump was asked by a reporter: "Can you confirm that it happened?"

"I don't know anything about it. I'm hearing it now for the first time," he responded.

The account, citing "two dozen people, including civilian government officials, members of the first Trump administration and current and former military personnel with knowledge of the mission" who spoke to the Times anonymously, said Trump had approved the mission.