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<div>Professor Choe wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> I cannot imagine that the US would
have allowed NK to remove it via high sea. The only alternative
must have been by land. Is it possible to move the ship Pueblo
via ground transportation?</blockquote>
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<div>You can always disassemble a 900 to 1000 ton boat like that in a
week or two (which would be necessary anyway to get it through all the
highway tunnels)..... but what I find much more interesting is your
note that you can't imagine the US would have allowed NK to transport
a spy ship that had been captured over 30 years ago (by Oct. 1999,
when it was transported). That's more than alarming if so. There is a
Senate Resolution (see below) from January of this year (not the first
one) asking for the return of that ship, which, I think, speaks for
itself. But the suggestion that the U.S. military would go for an
armed conflict to conquer a 1944 build spy ship that was captured
three decades ago is rather ... well, scary.</div>
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<div>Frank</div>
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SENATE RESOLUTION 29--DEMANDING THE RETURN OF THE USS
PUEBLO TO THE<br>
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Mr. CAMPBELL submitted the following resolution; which was
referred<br>
to the Committee on Foreign Relations:<br>
Whereas the USS Pueblo, which was
attacked and captured by<br>
the North Korean Navy on January 23, 1968,
was the first<br>
United States Navy ship to be hijacked on the
high seas by a<br>
foreign military force in over 150 years;<br>
Whereas 1 member of the USS
Pueblo crew, Duane Hodges, was<br>
killed in the assault while the other 82 crew
members were<br>
held in captivity, often under inhumane
conditions, for 11<br>
months;<br>
Whereas the USS Pueblo, an
intelligence collection<br>
auxiliary vessel, was operating in
international waters at<br>
the time of the capture, and therefore did
not violate North<br>
Korean territorial waters;<br>
Whereas the capture of the USS
Pueblo resulted in no<br>
reprisals against the Government or people of
North Korea and<br>
no military action at any time; and<br>
Whereas the USS Pueblo, though
still the property of the<br>
United States Navy, has been retained by
North Korea for more<br>
than 30 years, was subjected to exhibition in
the North<br>
Korean cities of Wonsan and Hungham, and is
now on display in<br>
Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea:
Now, therefore,<br>
be it<br>
Resolved,That the Senate--<br>
(1) demands the return of the USS
Pueblo to the United<br>
States Navy; and<br>
(2) directs the Secretary of the
Senate to transmit copies<br>
of this resolution to the President, the
Secretary of<br>
Defense, and the Secretary of State.<br>
<br>
Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, I am pleased to submit a
Senate<br>
Resolution calling on North Korea to return the USS Pueblo to the<br>
United States Navy. The legislation I am reintroducing today is
based<br>
on a resolution I introduced last year during the 107th Congress,<br>
Senate Resolution 246.<br>
On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo was unjustly attacked
and<br>
captured by<br>
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the North Korean Navy, becoming the first United States Navy ship to
be<br>
hijacked on the high seas by a foreign military force in over 150<br>
years. At the time of its capture, the USS Pueblo was operating as
an<br>
intelligence collection auxiliary vessel, and did not pose a
threat.<br>
This act of aggression resulted in the USS Pueblo's 82 crew
members<br>
being held in captivity for eleven months, often in inhumane<br>
conditions. Another brave crew member, Duane Hodges, was killed
during<br>
the initial attack and several more crew members were wounded. On<br>
December 23, 1968, after nearly a year of being unjustly detained
the<br>
surviving USS Pueblo crew members were finally released and allowed
to<br>
return home.<br>
It is interesting to note that the USS Pueblo I am calling on
the</font></div>
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to return today is in fact the third ship of the fleet to<br>
be named in honor of the city and county of Pueblo, located in my
home<br>
State of Colorado. The first ship of the fleet to be named in honor
of<br>
Pueblo was an armored cruiser which had previously been named the<br>
Colorado. In 1916, the USS Colorado was renamed as the USS Pueblo
when<br>
a new battleship named USS Colorado was authorized. The first USS<br>
Pueblo served until 1927. The second USS Pueblo was a city class<br>
frigate which served from 1944 to 1946. She was later sold to the<br>
Dominican Republic where she serves today.<br>
The third USS Pueblo is the ship now wrongly held by the
North<br>
Koreans. Built by the Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering<br>
Corporation, Kewaunee, WI, the ship originally served as a general<br>
purpose supply vessel FP-344 for service in the U.S. Army<br>
Transportation Corps when she was launched on April 16, 1944.
During<br>
1966 and 1967 the ship was converted, redesignated as the USS
Pueblo<br>
and commissioned as an environmental research vessel, AGER-2.<br>
It is important to note that even to this day the capture of
the USS<br>
Pueblo has resulted in no reprisal against North Korea,
demonstrating<br>
remarkable restraint by the United States. Even though the USS
Pueblo<br>
still clearly remains the legal property of the United States Navy,
the<br>
North Korean Government has kept it on display as a sort of
traveling<br>
propaganda museum.<br>
Recent events have made it clear that many unresolved issues
remain<br>
regarding our Nation's relationship with North Korea. For example,<br>
North Korea's recent high-profile resumption of nuclear
saber-rattling<br>
presents a serious resurgent challenge that we, our allies in
Northeast<br>
Asia and the rest of the world community must take seriously.<br>
While I certainly agree that successfully resolving this
situation is<br>
first and foremost, I also believe that there are other positive<br>
restorative steps that the North Koreans should take in order to
help<br>
improve our bilateral relationship. One such action would be to
return<br>
the USS Pueblo to its rightful owners, the United States Navy and
the<br>
American people they serve and protect.<br>
While returning the USS Pueblo may not necessarily remove the
35<br>
year-old scars inflicted by the attack of January 23, 1968, and<br>
especially those suffered by the crew of the USS Pueblo and by
their<br>
families and loved ones, it would serve as a good will gesture, a
salve<br>
if you will, signaling hope for a brighter future between our two<br>
nation's peoples.<br>
I stand with my colleagues back home in the Colorado State
General<br>
Assembly in demanding the return of the USS Pueblo to the United
States<br>
Navy.<br>
I urge my colleagues here in the U.S. Senate to join me in
supporting<br>
passage of this important resolution.</font></div>
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