November 22, 2012
We began our last day in Pyongyang with something American. The USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea on January 23, 1968 and its surviving crew held and tortured for eleven months before their release was successfully negotiated (38.99122, 125.72567). Officially it remains a commissioned vessel of the US Navy, but it is currently moored in the Taedong River serving as a trophy and tourist attraction. While she isn’t much to look at by today’s standards, I couldn’t help but hope she might be returned to U.S. hands one day.
The USS Pueblo
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