USS PUEBLO

50 years ago an act of piracy was committed against the United States when on January 23, 1968 the USS Pueblo was attacked and captured by North Korean forces.  She was a small spy ship sailing in International waters off the coast of North Korea monitoring radio signals.
The Pueblo  was commissioned in WWII and recommissioned in 1966 with a crew of 83 and the skipper Cmd. Lloyd Bucher.  Bucher had little choice but to surrender, being lightly armed and not a fighting ship.  82 crewmen and Cmdr. Bucher surrendered (one man was killed in the attack).
The crew was paraded in the streets, imprisoned, tortured and made to sign statements of guilt and sign false statements.
The Vietnam war was in full swing and filled the news media.  Little was made of the Pueblo and her crew.
The USS Pueblo now sits in the Pothong river near the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum.  This happened under the tyrant Kim Il-sung, grandfather of the new boss Kim Jong-un.  "The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree".....Medicineman!