From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Mon Jan 23 2006 - 13:28:27 PST
January 23
1968 North Korea seizes U.S. ship Pueblo
The U.S. intelligence-gathering ship Pueblo is seized by North Korean naval
vessels and charged with spying and violating North Korean territorial
waters. Negotiations to free the 83-man crew of the U.S. ship dragged on for
nearly a year, damaging the credibility of and confidence in the foreign
policy of President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration.
The capture of the ship and internment of its crew by North Korea was loudly
protested by the Johnson administration. The U.S. government vehemently
denied that North Korea's territorial waters had been violated and argued
the ship was merely performing routine intelligence gathering duties in the
Sea of Japan.
Everette
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