USS Pueblo (AGER-2)
Career (US)
Laid down:
Launched:	16 April 1944
Commissioned:	13 May 1967
Status:	Active, in commission, currently held by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
General characteristics
Displacement:	550 tons light, 895 tons full, 345 tons dead
Length:	53.9 m (177 ft)
Beam:	9.7 m (32 ft)
Draught:	2.7 m (9 ft)
Propulsion:	twin diesel
Speed:	12.7 knots (23.5 km/h)
Complement:	6 officers, 70 men
Armament:	2 × Browning .50-caliber machine guns

USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is a Banner-class technical research ship (Navy intelligence) which was boarded and captured by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) on 23 January 1968 in what is known as the Pueblo incident or alternatively as the Pueblo crisis.

North Korea stated that she strayed into their territorial waters, but the United States maintains that the vessel was in international waters at the time of the incident. More recently, facts have come to light that indicate that USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea at the instigation of the Soviet Union, which was seeking a cryptographic machine onboard to match with a key provided to the Soviets by the spy John Anthony Walker.

USS Pueblo, still held by DPRK today, remains a commissioned vessel of the United States Navy. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has specified that it be used to promote anti-Americanism.

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