I helped treat the crew of the USS Pueblo including CDR Lloyd Bucher at the Naval Hospital, San Diego after their repatriation. These guys had been beaten mercilessly with rifle butts.
“Lawsuit
Former Pueblo crewmembers William Thomas Massie, Dunnie Richard Tuck, Donald Raymond McClarren and Lloyd Bucher sued the North Korean government for the abuse they suffered at its hands during their captivity. North Korea did not respond to the suit. In December 2008, U.S. District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. in Washington DC awarded the plaintiffs $65 million in damages, calling their treatment by North Korea “extensive and shocking.”[22] The plaintiffs, as of October 2009, were attempting to collect the judgment from North Korean assets frozen by the US government.[23]”