January 30, 1968 (the first day of the first lunar month), Shigenobu, North Korea captured U.S. ship Pueblo withhold 82 crew. OpenCourseWare Figure: Captain Booker left the interrogation room


1 1968 30 U.S. spy ship "Pueblo" Wonsan near the sea in the Korean eastern spying activities, the Korean People's Army Navy captured. Captured before the U.S. recalcitrant North Korean naval vessels were ordered to be returned fire, killing and injuring U.S. forces several captured alive and 82. after
Captain Lloyd Mark Booker captured after confession, they accept a U.S. spy mission in the Japanese navy commander, invade the North Korean coastal waters to carry out espionage activities. And has had many in North Korea and other Asian coastal espionage. Spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a statement Dec. 23, the view of the U.S. spy ship crew captured after "frank confession" and repeatedly ask for forgiveness, and the United States has been the day "apology" to the DPRK, the Korean government announced the confiscation the ship, as well as all of the equipment and weapons, all the captured crew deported.
year later, on January 23, 1969, Pueblo skipper Lloyd Mark Booker naval lieutenant colonel confirmed that he had signed a confession, acknowledged that his boat engaged in espionage activities, in order to save the lives of the 82 surviving seamen. The
The 16 years of military service, the 41-year-old Navy officer choked, sobbing to tell Naval Review Tribunal: "I do not want to watch my sailors were shot dead. "He forth in detail before signing his confession how once again, by North Korean interrogators beaten and threatened with death. Earlier
5 Admiral court warned Booker, he did not resist to give up his ship may have to trial by a military court. He confirmed that he did not have to fight to give Pueblo, I can not look at the crew to be killed "for no reason" as nothing more than a massacre. He describes how to request assistance but did not receive any instruction of the United States Navy headquarters. (TodayinHistory.cn)