Picture courtesy of DPRK Studies.

The battle flag taken by US Marines in the American Campaign of 1871 on Gangwha Island is being returned via a lease to the Korean government:

The United States has agreed to return a Korean battle flag to South Korea this month on a lease basis, 126 years after the U.S. Navy captured it during an armed conflict here in the 19th century, officials at a state-run culture administration said Tuesday.

The 4.5-meter by 4.5-meter flag has been on display at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland since the U.S. took it as "spoils" from Korean general Uh Je-yeon during a 1871 battle at Gwangseong Fort in Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul. The conflict broke out as the U.S. attempted to open Korea to trade, and was subsequently christened by the New York Herald as "Our Little War With The Heathen."
The Culture Heritage Administration said the U.S. Naval Academy has agreed on a up to 10-year lease of the flag to the South Korean side.  [Yonhap]

I really don’t have a problem with the return of the flag, but I have to wonder if anything was done to get South Korea to pressure North Korea into returning the USS Pueblo in return for the US giving the battle flag back to South Korea.  I have steadfastly argued that we should cut no deals with North Korea and leverage maximum pressure on South Korea to return the USS Pueblo. 

Sadly I believe the sacrifices of the men of the USS Pueblo are as forgotten now by our country’s leadership as they were in 1968.