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USS Pueblo still held hostage by North Korea as Trump, Kim meet
[Wash Times] The USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy, sits in Boston, revered by sailors and history buffs.The second-oldest ship, the USS Pueblo, floats at a river dock in Pyongyang, still a hostage more than 50 years after North Korea seized it in a January 1968 raid in the frigid waters of the East Sea off the hermit kingdom’s northeastern coast. Calls from the surviving crew to bring the ship back have amounted to naught. The Colorado legislature, protective of the ship named after one of its cities, also weighs in every year with a resolution calling for the ship’s return. After one version passed 10 years ago, a state lawmaker received a postcard featuring a photo of a North Korean soldier smashing his rifle butt against the head of a Western-looking man in a blue uniform. The card had a North Korean postmark and a message. In flawless English, the writer urged the politician to "come and take it, you dirty American." That’s the polite version of what was written, said state Sen. Bob Gardner, a Republican from Colorado Springs and one of the sponsors of the "bring home the Pueblo" resolution this year. Mr. Gardner still marvels at the perfect, idiomatic English written on the unsigned card. Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-12 |
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