Ships of North Korea - Museum Ships in North Korea, USS Pueblo, Kang Nam 1, Dai Hong Dan (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is an ELINT and SIGINT Banner-class technical research ship (Navy intelligence) which was boarded and captured by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on January 23, 1968, in what is known as the Pueblo incident or alternatively as the Pueblo crisis or Pueblo affair. This is considered a major incident in the Cold War. North Korea stated that it strayed into their territorial waters, but the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident. Pueblo, still held by the DPRK today, officially remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. It is currently located in Pyongyang, where it is used as a museum ship. It is the only ship of the U.S. Navy currently being held captive. U.S. Army Cargo Vessel FP-344 (1944); Fitting out at the Kewaunee Shipbuilding