The electronic spy ship Pueblo, which sat in international waters off the coast of North Korea, was on its first voyage there when a group of North Korean ships and aircraft attacked it Jan. 23, 1968, and forced its captain to bring the ship to the port of Wonsan. Before the North Koreans boarded the Pueblo, its crew rushed to burn classified documents and destroy the code machines and eavesdropping equipment that were at the heart of the ship's mission -- gathering signal intelligence and other information from the closed, totalitarian nation that remains one of the United States' greatest security threats. For almost a year, the ship's crew, led by Cmdr. Lloyd "Pete" Bucher, was tortured and interrogated by the North Koreans. They suffered from near-starvation and post-traumatic stress disorder. In Washington, President Lyndon Johnson and his team, preoccupied with the w...