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Dec 23, 2015 · 47 Years ago today, 82 crew members of the USS PUEBLO (AGER-2) were released after 338 days in captivity in North Korea. On January 28, 1968, fourteen miles from North Korean land, the USS PUEBLO was attacked and captured by overwhelming forces from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Nov 16, 2016 · The North Korean ship opened fire on the Pueblo, killing one of the crew and wounding others. The Pueblo was barely armed; rather than fight back they began to frantically burn and dump...
Sep 15, 2023 · Crew of USS Pueblo reunites, 55 years after capture by North Korea. North Korea attacked and seized the Pueblo and its 83-person crew on Jan. 23, 1968, in international waters off the...
- Escalating Vietnam War in The Backdrop
- The Blue House Raid and Capture of The USS Pueblo
- The U.S. Response
- Ordeal of The Prisoners
- USS Pueblo Becomes A North Korea Propaganda Tool
Nearly 15 years after armistice was declared in the Korean War, diplomatic relations between the United States and North Korea remained nonexistent. “Back then there was virtually no communication whatsoever” between the two countries, explains Michael Robinson, a professor emeritus of East Asian Studies and History at Indiana University who specia...
On January 21, 1968, a group of North Korean commandos fought their way into Seoul in an attempt to assassinatethe South Korean president, Park Chung-hee, at his official residence, the Blue House. They failed, but dozens of South Koreans were killed in the firefights. Two days later, on January 23, North Korean patrol vessels and torpedo boats sur...
The Pueblo’s sailors were able to burn much of the classified information on board before their capture, but a National Security Agency report (declassified in 2012) stated that the loss “would dwarf anything in previous U.S. cryptologic history.” This was also the first hijacking of a U.S. Navy vessel since the Civil War, and it occurred at exactl...
Bucher and the rest of the Pueblo’s crew spent a harrowing 11 months in captivity, during which they were tortured, forced to sign confessions and subjected to relentless propaganda by their captors. At first they resisted, famously raising their middle fingers at the camera and telling the North Koreans it was the “Hawaiian good-luck sign.” Once t...
Though it is still an officially commissioned U.S. Navy ship, the USS Pueblo sits today in the Victorious War Museum in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. “It’s a hostage,” Robinson says, but it is also a tourist attraction and propaganda tool, a symbol of North Korea’s defeat of an enemy it had despised since the Korean War. Ahead of President T...
At the time of her seizure, the Pueblo, an electronic surveillance ship, was trying to pinpoint the location of military radar and radio stations along North Korea’s rugged east coast. The 176-foot vessel was alone, with no U.S. combat jets or ships to protect her.
It has been 20 years since the North Koreans boarded and captured the intelligence gathering ship, USS Pueblo (AGER-2), on 23 January 1968, taking her 83-man crew as hostages for 11 months. By 22 December when the crew was released, a sailor who was seriously wounded when the ship was seized had died in captivity.
Feb 26, 2021 · A US federal court has awarded $2.3 billion in damages to several crew members of the USS Pueblo and their surviving families, more than 50 years after North Korea seized the American naval...
