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[Woland]

Here's a link to an article in the New York Times on counterfeiting of US paper currency by the North Korean Government that some might find interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23counterfeit.html

I hope this is accessible to everyone.

Here's my favorite quote from it. "Superb quality" indeed:

From all accounts, superb quality is a feature of much North Korean contraband: methamphetamine of extraordinarily high purity; counterfeit Viagra rumored to exceed the bona fide product in its potency; supernotes. It�s an impressive product line for a regime that can barely feed its people. When I discussed this with Asher, he let out a sigh. �I always say that if North Korea only produced conventional goods for export to the degree of quality and precision that they produce counterfeit United States currency, they would be a powerhouse like South Korea, not an industrial basket case.�

[Antmore]

An interesting article, I wonder if North Korea also uses this expertise to produce counterfeit currency of other countries. I hope North Korea does not develop such expertise with military technology. North Korea, being a sovereign state, has an advantage over other counterfeiters, in that it has a legitimate reason for possessing the technology to produce bank notes.

I suppose this also shows that international competition spurs even communists to producing products of high quality.