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North Korea has shocking evidence of US plot
 North Korea has charged the United States with counterfeiting its own currency and shifting the blame to Pyongyang, adding artists with blood-shot eyes in Japan are making cartoons attacking Pyongyangs leaders. A spokesman for the Ministry of Peoples Security said in a statement the North had obtained shocking evidence Washington and Tokyo are producing false material that gives the impression Pyongyang is a criminal state, the Norths KCNA news agency said late Wednesday. The CIA secretly enlist(s) experts on counterfeiting notes claimed to be the most sophisticated in the world and invite(s) them to issue lots of fake currencies at counterfeit notes printing houses of North Korean-style operating in US military bases in different parts of the world, the spokesman said. US Treasury officials have briefed various governments about Washingtons suspicions that North Korea has for years been producing a high quality copy of its $100 bill. US officials have dubbed the copy the supernote. Although Pyongyang denies complicity in any counterfeiting activity, at least $45 million in such supernotes of North Korean origin have been detected in circulation, and estimates are that the country earns from $15 million to $25 million per year from counterfeiting, the US Congressional Research Service said in a report in March. The North Korean spokesman said the US Central Intelligence Agency had enlisted the help of artists in Japan to produce and distribute video tapes and CDs that falsely accuse North Korea of violating human rights and conducting illicit activity. Posted by: Fred 2006-04-21 |
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