Washington - US President Donald Trump spooked the Pentagon leadership with a tweet that -- had it been sent -- North Korea would have read as a sign of an imminent US attack, journalist Bob Woodward said in an interview that aired yesterday. Woodward, whose new book "Fear: Trump in the White House" hits book stores on Tuesday, described the incident in the interview with CBS as the most dangerous moment of Trump's nuclear standoff with North Korea. US tensions with North Korea have subsided since Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in Singapore June 12, 2018. But the earlier brinkmanship between the two nuclear-armed states -- including Trump's threat September 19, 2017 to "totally destroy North Korea" -- had sent tensions soaring. Asked what he had concluded, Woodward told CBS: "That people better wake up to what’s going on."

Source: Philippine Star September 09, 2018 18:00 UTC