U.S. leaders met to prepare for a potential nuclear strike by North Korea amid Trump’s fiery rhetoric, Miles Taylor writes in a forthcoming book.
As President in 2017, Donald Trump responded to North Korean missile tests with increasingly bellicose rhetoric. | Steven Senne/AP PhotoLess than a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, top homeland security officials were so alarmed about escalating tensions with North Korea that they held multiple meetings to prepare for a nuclear attack on American soil, according to a forthcoming book by Miles Taylor, who was a top official in the department at the time.
The Department of Homeland Security took a step it had never taken before, according to Taylor, who is best known for writingin The New York Times in 2018 describing a “quiet resistance” in the Trump administration “of people choosing to put country first.” Chris Krebs, a top DHS official at the time, confirmed that in 2017, department officials looked at how they would respond to a nuclear strike on the United States.
On Nov. 28 that year, North Korea tested a missile that could have reached the continental United States. The test spurred fear throughout the U.S. government, including at DHS. Then-acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke monitored it from a secure conference room, Taylor added, and he spoke with her after the test. She told him the president had called her in the wake of the launch. But it wasn’t to talk about North Korea.
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