Korean flag to be traded for captured spy ship? From: Capital (Annapolis) | Date: May 9, 2007| Author: EARL KELLY Staff Writer | Copyright 2007 Capital (Annapolis). Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The key to persuading North Korea to return the USS Pueblo may be found on the bottom shelf of a display case at the Naval Academy Museum.

The artifact is a 141/2--by-141/2-foot yellow Korean flag the United States captured in 1871 when more than 650 U.S. Marines and Blue Jackets overran the Korean fortress on Ganghwa Island, west of Seoul.

Only about 20 of the more than 250 Koreans in the fort survived; three Americans died, and 15 received the Medal of Honor. (North and South K...

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