Exactly 50 years ago on Jan. 23, 1968, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the American naval intelligence ship USS Pueblo was hijacked in international waters by North Korea. Its crew was imprisoned and tortured. Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's lack of public response indicated American impotence and indecision.
Many aspects of that saga have been told by historians and are being commemorated today, especially because of the continued threats by North Korea to incinerate American and allied cities via nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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