The Pueblo crisis left the United States with only one viable channel to communicate with North Korea: the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom. It was a setting already steeped in history—the same site where the Korean War armistice had been signed in 1953—and it would again become the stage for one of the most delicate negotiations of the Cold War.
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The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) has launched a brand new Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI) degree that will confer the advanced knowledge, skills, and practices necessary to develop, assess, and deploy AI for the U.S. Navy, joint forces and allied militaries. Graduates through the new program will be prepared to lead AI integration within their communities and across the U.S. Department of War (DOW).
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China has spent decades building a land-based missile force designed to keep the United States out of a fight over Taiwan — and U.S. officials say it now threatens every major airfield, port and military installation across the Western Pacific.
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Despite his efforts to remain unnoticed, Harry Iredale, of the ship’s oceanographers and civilian, found himself targeted by the North Koreans like everyone else. One morning, he was hauled into an interrogation room where he faced Possum, his room “daddy,” along with three other officers and a guard. “Who is the CIA agent?”
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On December 10, 1968, Glorious General (G.G.) called an all-hands meeting. His fury was unmistakable. The Americans, he declared, would now pay for their insincerity. Each man must confess not only his own crimes but those of his shipmates as well. This, G.G. warned, was their final chance to tell the truth. Tables were set up, and the men were ordered to begin writing a new round of “confessions.” From his cell, Ensign Tim Harris could see Commander Bucher sitting across the corridor, staring blankly at the wall, shoulders slumped in defeat.
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