EXCLUSIVE: N. Korea general tied to forged $100 bills

Washington times ^ | 06.02.09 | By Bill Gertz (Contact) | Tuesday, June 2, 2009

[Scanian]

What’s the big deal? The Fed produces worthless money by the trillions.

[luvbach1]

Oh, I agree that the N. Koreans have their own nefarious motives for their outlaw actions totally apart from Japanese crimes of WWII. The occurrence of the seizure and impressed servitude of innocent Japanese just reminded me of the forced servitude of the “comfort women.”

[Squantos]

That was something I was wondering about ....the new parts of the bills introduced to prevent such.....amazing .

Do the “markers” still allow us bottom feeders to check the bills ?

[Bringbackthedraft]

I heard you can buy a bundle of $100 bills in the flea markets in Columbia.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Fine by me. I am no defender of Japan's Imperial 帝國　past.

[Perdogg]

Columbia or Colombia?

[Bringbackthedraft]

Si!

[GOPJ]

North Korea is like a bleeding wart.

[McGruff]

Odd that basically the same thing was reported back in 2006.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23counterfeit.html?pagewanted=all

[Tainan]

Yes. As good as they are, someone trained and with experience can still read 'em. Even with the cues pointed out to me I was pretty baffled. Women seem to be better at IDing them from what I saw. of course the older hands can still pick 'em out pretty quick.
But from what I saw, they are still good enough that I've seen entire serial # runs over here get rejected just for 'safety reasons'. Meaning, banks just refuse to accept known batches of certain serial # runs based on someone reporting a supernote found with a # somewhere in that printing sequence.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Could this be seen as an ACT OF WAR?

[Costumed Vigilante]

Tim Geitner is a North Korean General?

[GOPsterinMA]

That would make a sweet tagline!