 {|    |} uss pueblo (ager-2) is an american electronic intelligence (elint) and signals intelligence (sigint) ship attached to navy intelligence, which was boarded and captured by north korean forces on 23 january, 1968, in what is known as the pueblo incident or alternatively as the pueblo crisis. the capture came less than a week after 36th president lyndon b. johnson's "state of the union" address to the united states congress (and broadcast nation-wide on television/radio), only a week before the start of the famous "tet offensive" in south vietnam during the vietnam war and three days after 31 men of north korea's "kpa unit 12" had infiltrated across the korea dmz (de-militarized zone, armistice demarcation line from truce of july 1953, ending korean war) in an attempt to attack the south korean "blue house" executive mansion in the capital seoul. the subsequent 11-month prisoner drama was a major incident in the continuing half-century long cold war between the "west" of capitalist democracies and the &
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