OUR seizure of a North Korean vessel, MV Jin Teng, last March 5, raises questions. We enforced a UN directive that just entered into force (hours?). Fair? What are we to do with this elephant in the room? So far, no report that the NoKors are aiming missiles or nuke warheads at us. Do we have a Nokor Desk in the DFA? As Talleyrand warned, “above all, no zeal.”
Here is a blast from the past. The USS Pueblo, with three Pinoys on board, was attacked and captured by North Korean forces on Jan. 23, 1968, in what is known today as the Pueblo incident; this matter we took up in Harvard Law at that time under Negotiation Guru Roger Fisher. In our very first meeting, in a small seminar room. Solve the crisis, we were asked to brainstorm, ha, ha.
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