The Norks latest conspiracy theory

Reuters/NY Times:

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 Pyongyang's leaders.

A spokesman for the Ministry of People's 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 North's 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 U.S. military bases in different parts of the world,'' the spokesman said.

U.S. Treasury officials have briefed various governments about Washington's suspicions that North Korea has for years been producing a high quality copy of its $100 bill. U.S. 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 U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a report in March.

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It appears North Korean creativity is not limited to reproducing supernotes. These guys should apply for jobs as comedy writers for late night TV.

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