To the Editor:
Forty-seven years ago this month a U.S. Navy vessel was attacked and blatantly seized by the government of North Korea. The ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo, was towed to North Korean waters and its 82 surviving crew members imprisoned and tortured for nearly a year.
While the Pueblo remains an active commissioned warship in the Navy, the vessel remains in North Korea, where it serves as a tourist attraction in that oppressive nation’s capital. It’s time for that to change.
January 28, 2015
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