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The USS Pueblo

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Brenda Elthon
Sep 09, 2019
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USS Pueblo (AGER-2) in Pyongyang, North Korea. [Nicor]

On January 23, 1968, when Chairman Kim Jong-un’s grandfather was the Supreme Leader of North Korea, his navy seized a U.S. ship, the USS Pueblo, in international waters. The ship’s 82 man crew was held captive for eleven months and tortured with starvation, freezing temperatures, sleep deprivation …

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