After eleven months of imprisonment, 83 men from the US Navy were released by North Korea.
On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a spy ship, was captured along with its crew by the North Korean armed forces. While the US Navy claimed that the Pueblo was outside of North Korea’s waters, North Korea claimed otherwise. The captives were only released after the US signed a statement that they were indeed within North Korea’s territory and that they would never do it again.