Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same, the failure to extricate Pueblo is riddled with ironies and grievous shortcomings. For so risky an action as a strafing run on North Korean vessels, the President's approval would have been needed. But Johnson was asleep, unaware of the situation until his advisers finally tipped him off a full 2 hrs. and 15 min. after Pueblo had been boarded. Even if the chain of communication had been less sluggish and reached Johnson in time for him to approve an air strike, his O.K. would have meant nothing. The world's foremost airpower did not have...
...Joint Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom seemed an even less fruitful court of resort. Meeting there the day after Pueblo's seizure, as they have for more than 14 years of sterile harangue, the U.S. and North Korean representatives exchanged angry denunciations...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...
With the capture of Pueblo, Kim went a long way toward achieving one of his goals. He also had possession of a U.S. spook ship packed with supersecret gear and if he did not have Lyndon Johnson for burning, he did have the hapless Commander Bucher. Nobody can be certain what happened to Bucher, but the Pyongyang regime was plainly making every effort to exploit him. It was a sad conclusion to Lloyd Bucher's first command...
There was some suspicion that Pyongyang might be planning to use Bucher's confession and interview as grounds for a trial of Pueblo's crew. "The criminals who encroach upon others' sovereignty and commit provocative acts must receive deserving punishment," said the party newspaper Nodong Sinmun. "These criminals must be punished by law." Warned State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey: "The U.S. Government would consider any such moves by North Korea to be a deliberate aggravation of an already serious situation...