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US Demands Return Of 1968 Seized Warship From North Korea
Marine Insight ^ | 1/27/2023 | Staff

Posted on 01/28/2023 11:14:31 AM PST by MAGA2017

Last week, the US sought from North Korea the return of the navy ship USS Pueblo which they seized on January 23, 1968. The House passed a resolution to get the vessel back after 55 years.

The US has maintained its position in the matter, terming the decision to seize the ship and its crew illegal as per international law, highlighting the vessel is the property of the US, and they want it to be returned.

Meanwhile, in a report published by Rodong Sinmun, North Korea’s official newspaper, the country has vowed to wipe out the US land, not just an airfield or port, if the USS Pueblo enters the country’s water again.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: northkora; pueblo; seized; ship
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To: MAGA2017
I had a "Free the Pueblo" bumper sticker on my bedroom wall in 69.

Enlisted in 71.

21 posted on 01/28/2023 11:49:13 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: MAGA2017
An older shipmate that served on the Pueblo was a master-at-arms on a ship I served on.

Never saw much of the guy, he always shuffling semi-hunched over when out and about.

22 posted on 01/28/2023 11:52:19 AM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: MAGA2017

It was removed from any navigable waters. The Norks cut it up in sections, transported it overland, and put it back together in a pond at their national museum. Couldn’t get to it even if we wanted to now.


23 posted on 01/28/2023 11:54:07 AM PST by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: MAGA2017

This will be a short discussion.

US: Give us back our ship!

North Korea: NO!! Go F yourself!!


24 posted on 01/28/2023 11:59:53 AM PST by bosco24
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“So I wondered what exactly we would do if we are “demanding” return of the ship, per the headline.”

We are not demanding. Click-bait headline.


25 posted on 01/28/2023 12:07:18 PM PST by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: MAGA2017

I guess it’s just a way of reminding the lapdog of Russia and China that it’s a dishonorable bandito.


26 posted on 01/28/2023 12:18:42 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: MAGA2017

Sure, kick up trouble with Russia, China, North Korea… at the same time.


27 posted on 01/28/2023 12:32:32 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: traderrob6

Jeez, you could film “The Sand Pebbles II” on that thing.


28 posted on 01/28/2023 12:44:47 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Picture yourself serving on that vessel and the higher-ups letting you hang out and dry. No backup. Local commanders too timid to act without the ok from the Washington.

This crap happens all the time.


29 posted on 01/28/2023 12:58:56 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Don’t forget the big war games they just had with Israel and at Iran


30 posted on 01/28/2023 1:15:50 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: MAGA2017

More small D energy from the Biden regime.


31 posted on 01/28/2023 1:17:26 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: PLMerite
My dad socialized with CDR. Bucher at the Officer's Club while the USS Pueblo was in Yokosuka. (my mom used the term "drinking buddy")

My dad was also the base Security Officer and Communications officer too. He was absent for significant periods of time during that crisis.

I think this was where he was:


32 posted on 01/28/2023 1:34:29 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: USAF1985

I had not heard that. It doesn’t look landlocked, it looks like they towed it up a river. They might have poured concrete around it for all I know, though, much as the Japanese did with the Mikasa just outside the fence at Yokosuka.


33 posted on 01/28/2023 1:40:13 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: rottweiller_inc

Barring a return of Trump, I don’t think this will end in peace.

I’ve alerted my sons to start thinking now - before a draft - about what compelling interest they have in dying for Ukraine or Taiwan and make appropriate plans. I will support them either way.


34 posted on 01/28/2023 2:30:31 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: MAGA2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA7383noev8&t=116s


35 posted on 01/28/2023 3:06:27 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: MAGA2017

Had a Chief Instructor at Class A School that was asked by a friend to swap duty to be on the Pueblo. He wanted the sea duty. They switched.

My Chief Instructor went to teach at Class A School and his buddy went to North Korea.

True story. I’d tell you more, but then I’d have to kill you.


36 posted on 01/28/2023 3:52:56 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: faucetman

Dad was on a troop transport called the Jackson and a minesweeper called the Strive during Korea. The sweeper had large “scissors” that cut the chains and allowed the mines to surface well away from the ship. Some lucky sailor got to shoot at the mine until it sank or exploded.


37 posted on 01/28/2023 4:02:55 PM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

No I’m pretty sure this isn’t gonna end in peace and fact it looks like Biden and his left wing friends are setting out to provoke a number of countries


38 posted on 01/28/2023 4:45:12 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: rottweiller_inc

The Deep State is making the classic Adolph blunder—fight wars on multiple fronts and watch what happens next...


39 posted on 01/28/2023 4:48:57 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: cgbg

Yeah I honestly believe they think that they can control Both the wars themselves and end them when they need to


40 posted on 01/29/2023 2:02:44 AM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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