Timeline Tuesday 23 January 1968

Events on Tuesday 23 January 1968 1

• 1968 USS Pueblo seized by North Korea American intelligence ship captured off the North Korean coast North Korean naval vessels boarded and captured the USS Pueblo, killing one crewman and taking 82 sailors prisoner. The crew was held for eleven months and subjected to torture before their release in December 1968. The ship itself was never returned and remains in North Korean hands.