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[edit] the US would take action if it were true

This story looks like bogus. Just think about it. If the USA knows the commies have the press factory in Pyeongseong, they would send in AC-130s and choppers with Delta Force or SEAL to capture the equipment. Big scandal. Uncle Sam could then convene the UN Security Council and press through a resolution against North Korea and start an internationally backed war to unite the peninsula. Chinese communists would be powerless to protect Kim-Yong Il in the face of such a scandal. Most certainly Dubya and neocons are very keen to get rid of those stalinist bastards. Why would he miss this opportunity?

[edit] the offense is not worth the cost of taking action

Same reason there has been a DMZ for about fifty years. The human costs of intervention would be too high. If this is going on (and I see no reason to doubt its plausibility) it seems unlikely to me that the US would take it that seriously because the scale is so small--according to the story North Korean officials abroad (how many of those would there be?) are distributing the notes at a rate of 50/50. This is extremely unlikely to have a serious effect on the US economy. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:57, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] inconsistent

There are confliting passages in this article: Have people been arested, or haven't they?

[edit] where?

What passages do you think conflict?--ThreeAnswers 23:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

I edited the first line in this article because it reported NK's involvement as fact, and as far as I'm aware this isn't the case (it is an allegation as of now).

The Garland section is /very/ NPOV. Garland's position as Chief of Staff of the Official IRA, for example, is an allegation reported directly by one newspaper, which is hardly proof. More importantly, the way the article is written suggests that the goings-on are factual, rather than allegations in a US DoJ indictment.

dahamsta 15:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

nytimes.com is a paysite. They get your information, and for "free" they give you the first paragraph. This should be removed or at least warned of. 66.114.93.6 08:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] CIA involvement

Maybe the idea of CIA involvement should be considered in more detail (and not only as a north corean lie) since many western specialists do not assume that a country like north corea would be able to afford or maintain such a machine - and even if this would be the case would not gain an economical advantage (since operations including the experts, sumggeling the material eg.) would be too expensive

compare the book "Moneymakers. The Secret World of Banknote Printing" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.168.90.160 (talk • contribs).

  • I feel there is a lot of mis-guided information on this Supernote page. The most mis-lead is the CIA Involvement section. If you review the translated news article, you will be left with a huge sense of doubt as to the importance of such unsubstantiated claims, in such a short news article. It makes me question how much weight we should put on this section of the Supernote article on our dearest 'just-the-facts mam' ,Wikipedia. I question the intentions of the closing statement in this section "Presently, there has not been an official response by the U.S. government to these accusations". -- ViaBest 17:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
The article consists almost completely of rumours, the one accusing CIA is by no means different to that. The article seems to know better what the North Koreans are doing than they probably know themselves, and that without providing any explanations for the sources of the information. Indeed the style of the article is to say at most "North Korea is accused of...", but never to tell by whom are they actually accused, by everyone ranging from the United Nations to the Pope? Or rather just by the current US cabinet? -84.169.79.157 10:49, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

North Korea called the accusations "sheer lies" and accused the U.S. of using the issue as a pretext to war.[2][3] On January 6, 2007 reports surfaced suggesting the counterfeiting was the work of the CIA - a statement corroborated by anonymous U.S. government sources.[4]

I clicked through and read the article at globalresearch... it does not say anything about US government sources confirming anything, anonymous or otherwise. The investigation was a german newspaper, the 'Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung' of Frankfurt, which interviewed "counterfeit money experts and leading representatives of the high-security publishing industry".

The statement re corroboration by US government sources has been removed.

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