| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy. By Mitchell B. Lerner. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xiv, 320 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1171-1.)

The American government experienced a rude shock in January 1968 when North Korea (The Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea, DPRK) took possession of the U.S. spy ship Pueblo in international waters off the North Korean coast. As Mitchell B. Lerner writes in The Pueblo Incident, the subsequent imprisonment of the Pueblo's crew did not receive the intensive news coverage that subsequent crises (such as Iran's holding of American hostages in 1979–1981) would. Largely, this was because of 1968's numerous painful events: the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the violence-plagued Democratic National Convention, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, etc. Still, there was a palpable sense of relief, nationwide, when negotiations secured the Pueblo crew's release at the end of that year.

Lerner has done impressive research at a dozen archives and in published materials, so The Pueblo Incident will likely stand for years as the definitive treatment of the affair. Still, the volume is as much an interpretation as it is a fact-laden account of the Pueblo, and some readers will disagree with some of Lerner's views.

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