OT-N Korea helping Greenspan

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North Korea is helping Greenspan keep up with the demand for US currency, apparently.
[SNIP] Long an international bad boy, North Korea has grown in the scope and severity of its outrages over the years.

To begin with, there was the counterfeiting of American $100 bills. Having stolen U.S. printing presses and the formula for the currency pulp and paper, North Korea manufactures copies of the "new" U.S. $100 bills of such high quality that it has had to modify its counterfeiting process downward, because the bills looked better than the U.S. originals.

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-- Funny Money (funny@money.nkorea), December 23, 1999


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