As interesting as the vessel is the noncompliance of the crew in being used as propaganda: > This treatment turned worse when the North Koreans realized that c

As interesting as the vessel is the noncompliance of the crew in being used as propaganda: > This treatment turned worse when the North Koreans realized that crewmen were secretly giving them "the finger" in staged propaganda photos. and > Eventually the North Koreans threatened to execute his men in front of him, and Bucher relented and agreed to "confess to his and the crew's transgression." Bucher wrote the confession since a "confession" by definition needed to be written by the confessor himself. They verified the meaning of what he wrote, but failed to catch the pun when he said "We paean the DPRK [North Korea]. We paean their great leader Kim Il Sung". (Bucher pronounced "paean" as "pee on.") I wasn't even familiar with the verb "paean", brilliant of the commander to know that non-native speakers wouldn't catch on to the idiosynchronies of using an uncommon homophone as an insult.