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Court Awards $400M Default Judgment Against North Korea to Victims of 1968 Attack on U.S.S. Pueblo

Eugene Volokh | 5.29.2026 10:40 AM

A short excerpt from the long opinion in Does v. Democratic People's Republic of N. Korea, decided yesterday by Judge Timothy Kelly (D.D.C.):

In January 1968, North Korea chased down and captured the U.S.S. Pueblo in international waters, killing one of the ship's crew and taking the rest hostage. For the next eleven months, North Korea beat, starved, interrogated, and tortured the survivors to extract false........

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