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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 11:25 PM
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North Korea accused of printing counterfeit U.S. currency
BEIJING - North Korea is financing illicit activities by printing up bogus U.S. $100 bills and passing them abroad to banking centers such as Macau, the former Portuguese colony now under China's control, a senior U.S. Treasury official charged Friday.

The counterfeit bills are of such good quality that they've come to be called "super notes," said Stuart Levey, the Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
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Despite publicity over the counterfeit "super notes," North Korea continues to print the bogus bills, Levey said.

"There's been a super note that's been created in North Korea recently, quite recently," he said, offering no further details. "I don't want to comment exactly on the evidence."

Levey declined to say how North Korea obtained the technology to produce high-quality fake U.S. currency or how much it has attempted to pass abroad.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13023280.htm
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 11:32 PM
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1. This is not new news. They've been doing this for decades.
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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-05 12:02 AM
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2. but it said,"super notes" of high quality ...
all my life when I seen funny money some of the fakes looked good but
they never had the feel of real paper money.I haven't seen the super note so I cant say.Doesn't the Bush Crime Family have a printing operation ? whats it called..ah! The US.Mint
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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-05 01:58 AM
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3. yea, I got some, it smells like "Kim Chee"
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Nostradamus Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-05 02:02 AM
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4. It's an excuse to cover up the massive printing of new currency in the US

the US federal debt was static for a month or so...
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-05 02:04 AM
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5. Oboy this is economical warfare!!!
:bounce:
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-29-05 08:35 AM
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7. Inflation caused by North Korea!
Let's get em.
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