![In this Thursday, June 22, 2006 photo released by North Korea's Korea Central News Agency via Korea News Service, North Korean soldiers watch USS Pueblo, which was seized by North Korean navy off the Korean coast in Jan. 1968, near Taedonggang river in Pyongyang USS Pueblo](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGwhW4HOoUVA-bHUTwHxi_sVUvhucQtpJI7YqihWiuPd-yFKt73niKDKfDqLQhI8tew4Vc8K-MSDRnwZwJBulZIBsXbOne9nGt36RReC857tvZCbKUB1M7s_LfGmTMLVp1zPVM/s200/USS+Pueblo.jpg)
With a fresh coat of paint and a new home along the Pothong River, the USS Pueblo, a spy ship seized off North Korea's east coast in the late 1960s, is expected to be unveiled this week as the centerpiece of a renovated war museum to commemorate what North Korea calls "Victory Day," the 60th anniversary this Saturday of the signing of the armistice that ended hostilities in the Korean War.
The ship is North Korea's greatest Cold War prize, a potent symbol of how the country has stood up to the great power of the United States, once in an all-out ground war and now with its push to develop the nuclear weapons and sophisticated missiles it needs to threaten the U.S. mainland.
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