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Last Updated: 27th February, 2021 15:19 IST US Court Awards $2.3 Billion To USS Pueblo Crew Held Hostage By North Korea In 1968 Us has ordered North Korea to pay damages to the crew and family of the spy ship USS Pueblo. The crew was captured by the North Korean navy. A US court has ordered North Korea to pay for the damages caused to the crew and family of the spy ship USS Pueblo. The crew was captured by the North Korean navy and tortured for a time period of 11 months in the year 1968. In the hearing, the Washington Federal court said that the surviving members of the crew and famil...

More than 50 years ago, North Korea captured the  USS Pueblo and subjected the spy ship’s crew to “barbarity” for almost a year, treatment that “required medical and/or psychiatric intervention” for the men upon their release in December 1968. Today, crew members and their families face the challenge of finding North Korea’s assets so they can realize their shares of $2.3 billion judgment against Pyongyang handed down by a U.S. district court. In a memorandum opinion issued Feb. 16 but filed and made public Wednesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stated...

A photo of the Pueblo in the Puget Sound (United States Navy) 26 Feb 2021 WASHINGTON -- After more than 50 years, USS Pueblo crew members and their families are finally being recognized for what they have endured. A federal district court has awarded compensatory damages in the amount of $1.15 billion and additional punitive damages in the same amount. Thursday’s decision follows a 2019 default judgment that held North Korea liable for taking the crew hostage in 1968. The damages awarded are among the largest ever awarded in a state-sponsored terrorism case. The case, John Doe A-1 et al....

2018: She helped crack North Korea's code of silence 04:11 (CNN)A US federal court has awarded $2.3 billion in damages to several crew members of the USS Pueblo and their surviving families, more than 50 years after North Korea seized the American naval vessel and took its crew hostage. More than 100 crew members and their relatives filed a suit against North Korea in February 2018 in a federal court under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, which allows victims to sue state sponsors of terrorism for torture, hostage-taking, personal injury or death. The award is among the largest sums eve...

The former crew of the USS Pueblo are entitled to $2.3 billion in compensatory damages for the “pain and suffering” they endured while imprisoned in North Korea over 50 years ago, a federal judge recently ruled.   “The crew members aboard the USS Pueblo suffered unimaginable pain during their captivity in North Korea,” Colorado Senate President Leroy Garcia (D-Pueblo) said in a statement. “After everything they endured, these brave Americans and their families deserve to be made whole again, and this decision is a positive recognition of that fact.”  Judge Dabney Friedric...