By GI Korea on January 23rd, 2009 at 7:42 pm

This Day in Korean History: The Capture of the USS Pueblo

• guitard
  8:34 pm on January 23rd, 2009 1

  According to Wikpedia: Pueblo is still held by North Korea. In October 1999, it was towed from Wonson on the east coast, around the Korean Peninsula, to Nampo on the west coast. This required moving the vessel through international waters. No attempt to recapture the Pueblo was made. This move was done just before the visit of U.S. presidential envoy James Kelly to the capital Pyongyang. The present location of Pueblo is in Pyongyang, an attempt to project an image to tourists of the North Koreans' strength.

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  I can't understand why we let them do that. We should have done unto them as they did unto us – but with a much greater massive show of force. It's a US Navy vessel – we would only be claiming that which is rightfully ours.

• GI Korea
  11:41 pm on January 23rd, 2009 2

  Guitard, you can read here how it was allowed to be moved:

  http://rokdrop.com/2007/01/26/remembering-the-uss…

• Hamilton
  1:27 am on January 24th, 2009 3

  Again we have failed to communicate clearly with thugs. Kahafi got it, now he is getting sqishy with conficting signals.

  The Pueblo should have been sunk years ago.

• haksaeng
  10:03 am on January 24th, 2009 4

  The Pueblo survivors put together a website to tell their stories. They tried to cover their whole experience before and during captivity. The website is http://www.usspueblo.org/.

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