Andy at Flying Yangban reports that the city of Pueblo, Colorado is enlisting the help of former ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg to get the USS Pueblo back from the North Koreans.
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Donald Gregg is currently head of the Korea Society, so despite his CIA background is probably in a better position than most to talk to the North about it.
I myself would like to see the US include it in its list of demands during future negotiations. That way feed NK some of its own medicine.
I think an interesting, although highly unlikely, option for the American gov’t during some tense moment in negotiations with N.K. would be this: the obliteration and sinking of the docked Pueblo with cruise missiles. With a subsequent and enigmatic “Hey, it’s our boat we have the right to sink it” comment. It would be an excellent slap at North Korea - too small to draw response, and symbolic enough to call into focus the US ability to obliterate the North, a fact often forgotten.
Or perhaps a cutting out expedition (example at http://www.history.navy.mil/do.....const2.htm).