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North 'Still Forging U.S. Dollar Bills'
The Chosun Ilbo ^
| 3/02/2010
| The Chosun Ilbo
Posted on 03/02/2010 10:22:53 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
North Korea seems to have suspended the state-sponsored drug trade last year but continues to trade in counterfeit dollar bills and cigarettes, the U.S. State Department claims.
The annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report released by the department on Monday said, "Hard-to-detect fake US$100 notes made only by North Korea turned up in 2008 and 2009 in San Francisco and the South Korean city of Busan, although it was unclear how long the notes had been in circulation," AFP reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.chosun.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 100; counterfeit; dollar; forgery; money; nkorea; northkorea; printedmoney
To: sonofstrangelove; rdl6989; TigerLikesRooster; SevenofNine
To: sonofstrangelove
I’m still forging Confederate bank notes. Just in case the tide should turn.
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:33:37 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(It's the Marxism, stupid! ... And they call themselves Progressives.)
To: Jet Jaguar
We did ‘loan’ one of our printing presses to Iran many years ago. It’s on FR, and will take forever to find it.
Its printings were discovered in ?’06?
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:34:50 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: txhurl
Interesting.
I missed that.
To: TigersEye
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posted on
03/02/2010 10:37:15 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: sonofstrangelove
"North 'Still Forging U.S. Dollar Bills'"
That's nothing, so are we.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:16:38 PM PST
by
JoSixChip
(It's time to embrace the madness! The sooner we default the sooner we can reorganize.)
To: JoSixChip
The difference between ours and their operation, ours is “legal”.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:19:56 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: JoSixChip
That's nothing, so are we.Heh. The joke's on Kim Jong Il. Everyone knows that money is worthless.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:31:45 PM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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