Replying to a message of Roy Witt to Joe Delahaye:

 RW> 24 May 06 18:31, Joe Delahaye wrote to Roy Witt:

 JD>>>> You just might be surprised.  While I doubt they could grab a
 JD>>>> nuclear device, if the judgement is big enough, then y might
 JD>>>> confiscate a ship or an aircraft.  It has been done before,  US
 JD>>>> propery or not.
 >>> 
 >>> Sure...but the consequences may be more than the confiscator is
 >>> willing to pay.

 JD>> Why?  Is the US above the law in other countries?

 RW> Wouldn't that depend on the circumstances? Say a country deliberately
 RW> confiscated some US Navy Ships (remember the Koreans?)...the
 RW> consequences could be devastating, for the confiscator...

Just what did happen to those North Koreans, anyway?

BTW, several years ago they sailed the former USS Pueblo from Wonsan around
the tip of South Korea and up the west coast to Pyongyang, where it is now a
museum display piece.

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