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...agreeing to a site for peace negotiations. In Pittsburgh, he suggested that Secretary of State Dean Rusk be dismissed as a "symbolic" gesture, and in Philadelphia, though he later hedged the idea, he proposed that the U.S. pay ransom to North Korea for the return of the U.S.S. Pueblo's crew...
...commando force for sabotage and guerrilla warfare missions over the border. It has launched 321 raids in the past year, a 600% increase over the year before. One such mission was designed to assassinate Park, but it failed (TIME, Feb. 2); not long after, the U.S.S. Pueblo was hijacked. The South does not expect a full-scale invasion, but it believes that the current raids are part of a gathering spring offensive that is aimed at undermining South Korean confidence and morale...
Enclosed in a plain envelope with a neatly typed address, that letter arrived last week at the home of the writer's mother, Mrs. Robert S. Harris, m Melrose, Mass. Written by the Pueblos research officer and intended also for his wife Esther, it was among the latest of 102 letters that the 82 captured Americans have sent to President Johnson to U.S. Senators and to their own families and sweethearts since their ship was seized off North Korea in January. Having failed at the diplomatic level to extract an apology from the U.S. for the Pueblo...
...worry about me, because I am being treated well by the Korean people. It is no news by now that the Pueblo was captured in the act of collecting intelligence in the territorial waters of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The penalty for espionage in this country is death. The only condition that we will be returned home on is for the U.S. Government to admit its crime, apologize and give assurance that it will not happen again. If these conditions are not met, then we will be executed for the acts. I love you both...
...recites the North Korean propaganda line that the U.S. must admit its transgressions, apologize and promise to sin no more. They also ask the recipients to organize support to bring pressure to bear on the Government for an apology. Many of the letter writers, including Commander Lloyd Bucher, the Pueblo's skipper, mention the fact that they have confessed their own wrongdoings against North Korea and have so far been spared any punishment...