Reports that President Trump revealed sensitive information to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, mentioning on a phone call that the Unites States had nuclear submarines near North Korea last month, drove a fresh round of media hysteria on Wednesday. But days before Trump even spoke to Duterte at least part of that information had been broadcast publicly in a Naval press release.
Leaked transcripts of Trump’s April 29 call with Duterte showed he discussed military operations near the Korean Peninsula, saying, “We have a lot of firepower over there. We have two submarines — the best in the world. We have two nuclear submarines, not that we want to use them at all.”
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