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North Korean Counterfeiting

Okay, let me get this straight...

For those who have handled them, North Korean "supernotes" are virtually indistinguishable from the $100 bills they mimic - near-perfect forgeries of the most widely circulated American bank note outside the United States.

But the fakes are more than just beautiful examples of criminal craftsmanship. They may also be the biggest hurdle to the resumption of six-nation talks meant to persuade the North to abandon its self-described nuclear weapons production program.

So one of the main issues that is stopping our negotiations about North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental delivery systems is the fact that they are printing millions of dollars of fake US currency. For nearly two decades.

Sigh. If only we could get them to the negotiating table, surely they would promise not to make any bad, bad weapons. And not to use the ones they do make. A good, hard promise from Pyongyang - that's what we need.