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GreatCaesarsGhost

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Mon Jul 1, 2019, 04:19 PM Jul 2019

Hey trump, did you ask your buddy Kim to return the USS Pueblo?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)

USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class environmental research ship, attached to Navy intelligence as a spy ship, which was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on 23 January 1968, in what is known today as the "Pueblo incident" or alternatively, as the "Pueblo crisis".

The seizure of the U.S. Navy ship and her 83 crew members, one of whom was killed in the attack, came less than a week after President Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union address to the United States Congress, a week before the start of the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and three days after 31 men of North Korea's KPA Unit 124 had crossed the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and killed 26 South Koreans in an attempt to attack the South Korean Blue House (executive mansion) in the capital Seoul. The taking of Pueblo and the abuse and torture of her crew during the subsequent 11-month prisoner drama became a major Cold War incident, raising tensions between the western powers, and the Soviet Union and China.

North Korea stated that Pueblo deliberately entered their territorial waters 7.6 nautical miles (14 km) away from Ryo Island, and that the logbook shows that they intruded several times.[1] However, the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident and that any purported evidence supplied by North Korea to support its statements was fabricated.[2]

Pueblo, still held by North Korea today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy.[3] Since early 2013, the ship has been moored along the Potong River in Pyongyang, and used there as a museum ship at the Pyongyang Victorious War Museum.[4] Pueblo is the only ship of the U.S. Navy still on the commissioned roster currently being held captive.[5]
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Hey trump, did you ask your buddy Kim to return the USS Pueblo? (Original Post) GreatCaesarsGhost Jul 2019 OP
His heroes are the people who don't get caught. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2019 #1
Since he won't read about it, maybe he'll see the movie Simeon Salus Jul 2019 #2
Trumps reply: "What . . . there aren't Indians in North Korea." Vinca Jul 2019 #3

Simeon Salus

(1,141 posts)
2. Since he won't read about it, maybe he'll see the movie
Mon Jul 1, 2019, 05:00 PM
Jul 2019

for which Hal Holbrook won the Emmy.



Long, and dated (it's really a filmed play) but I remember at the time it was first shown how powerful it was and how powerless I felt to do anything about it.
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