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Last Updated: 27th February, 2021 15:19 IST US Court Awards $2.3 Billion To USS Pueblo Crew Held Hostage By North Korea In 1968 Us has ordered North Korea to pay damages to the crew and family of the spy ship USS Pueblo. The crew was captured by the North Korean navy. A US court has ordered North Korea to pay for the damages caused to the crew and family of the spy ship USS Pueblo. The crew was captured by the North Korean navy and tortured for a time period of 11 months in the year 1968. In the hearing, the Washington Federal court said that the surviving members of the crew and families of those who have lost their lives deserve the ‘compensatory damages for confinement’. The amount came down to $1.15 billion and it was further doubled for punitive damages against Pyongyang. ....
More than 50 years ago, North Korea captured the USS Pueblo and subjected the spy ship’s crew to “barbarity” for almost a year, treatment that “required medical and/or psychiatric intervention” for the men upon their release in December 1968. Today, crew members and their families face the challenge of finding North Korea’s assets so they can realize their shares of $2.3 billion judgment against Pyongyang handed down by a U.S. district court. In a memorandum opinion issued Feb. 16 but filed and made public Wednesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stated that “North Korea was liable” for “its incorporated theories of assault, battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, solatium, and wrongful death.” ....
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. O ....
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. ....