A North Korean seaman aboard the USS Pueblo, a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and now moored in Pyongyang and serving as a museum and symbol of North Korean military might. Picture: AFP A North Korean seaman aboard the USS Pueblo, a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and now moored in Pyongyang and serving as a museum and symbol of North Korean military might. Picture: AFP
A North Korean seaman aboard the USS Pueblo, a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and now moored in Pyongyang and serving as a museum and symbol of North Korean military might. Picture: AFP

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Lessons for today of USS Pueblo’s 1968 capture by North Korea

Political experts say there is much to be learned from the warship crisis 50 years ago that brought the Korean peninsula to the brink of a second war

Topic |   North Korea
Stuart Heaver
Stuart Heaver

Updated: 7:16pm, 25 Jan, 2018

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A North Korean seaman aboard the USS Pueblo, a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and now moored in Pyongyang and serving as a museum and symbol of North Korean military might. Picture: AFP A North Korean seaman aboard the USS Pueblo, a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and now moored in Pyongyang and serving as a museum and symbol of North Korean military might. Picture: AFP
A North Korean seaman aboard the USS Pueblo, a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 and now moored in Pyongyang and serving as a museum and symbol of North Korean military might. Picture: AFP
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