Operation Combat Fox

[1] The seizure of the Pueblo led to President Lyndon Johnson ordering a show of force with a massive deployment of U.S. air and navy assets to Korea.

[3] The operations were supported by the partial mobilization of reservists for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[4] Publicly, the Soviet Union responded by augmenting their naval forces in the Pacific and by sending a letter to US president Lyndon B. Johnson on February 3, 1968 demanding that the United States scale back their build-up in the Sea of Japan.

Privately however, Alexei Kosygin gave assurances to the US ambassador in Moscow (Llewellyn Thompson) on 6 February 1968 that the Soviet Union had no intention to go to war over Kim Il Sung's provocation.

As a response to this overture, Lyndon Johnson agreed to withdraw one unnamed vessel "somewhat southward".

A U.S. Air Force Republic F-105D Thunderchief of the 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing, at Osan Air Base, Korea, during Operation "Firefly" in 1968 that was initiated after the “Pueblo Incident”. Note that the aircraft is armed with six Mk 117 750 lb bombs and AIM-9B Sidewinder air-to-air missiles.