An inability to translate clear signals is perhaps the most interesting lesson I’ve found from an analysis of North Korea’s 1968 capture of the USS Pueblo spy ship. The following paragraph comes from unclassified CIA files: Studies in Intelligence Vol 59, No. 1 (Extracts, March 2015). The ship would gain little insight or warning from … Continue reading USS Pueblo Capture by North Korea: Weak Translation to Blame? →
A photo of the Pueblo in the Puget Sound (United States Navy)
26 Feb 2021
WASHINGTON After more than 50 years, USS Pueblo crew members and their families are finally being recognized for what they have endured.
A federal district court has awarded compensatory damages in the amount of $1.15 billion and additional punitive damages in the same amount. Thursday’s decision follows a 2019 default judgment that held North Korea liable for taking the crew hostage in 1968. The damages awarded are among the largest ever awarded in a state-sponsored terrorism case.
The case,
John Doe A-1 et al. v. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, was filed by Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp three years ago this month on behalf of 61 crew member plaintiffs and 110 family member plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It arises out of the capture of the Pueblo during an intelligence-gathering mission in international waters off the Korean Peninsula. On January 23, 1968
2018: She helped crack North Korea s code of silence 04:11 (CNN)A US federal court has awarded $2.3 billion in damages to several crew members of the USS Pueblo and their surviving families, more than 50 years after North Korea seized the American naval vessel and took its crew hostage.
More than 100 crew members and their relatives filed a suit against North Korea in February 2018 in a federal court under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which allows victims to sue state sponsors of terrorism for torture, hostage-taking, personal injury or death.
The award is among the largest sums ever handed out in a state-sponsored terrorism case, the attorneys representing the plaintiffs said in a statement Thursday.
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