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US court orders North Korea to pay $400M over 1968 seizure of USS Pueblo

State Department notifies DPRK’s UN mission after judge awarded $3.35M to each crew member over captivity

A U.S. court has ordered North Korea to pay $400 million to compensate the crew of the USS Pueblo, a warship Pyongyang seized in 1968, bringing the total amount of damages related to the incident to nearly $3 billion.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the payment to several crew members and their families on May 28, and the State Department notified North Korea’s Permanent Mission to the U.N. in New York of the decision on Aug. 8, according to court records.

The case covers 15 crew members (four survivors and 11 estates), as well as

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