calendar>>June 12. 2009 Juche 98
Lee Myung Bak Group's Touted "Story about Counterfeit Money" Rebuked
Pyongyang, June 12 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea Friday gave the following answer to the question put by KCNA refuting the racket kicked up by the south Korean puppets against the DPRK over the "story of counterfeit money," pursuant to the U.S. policy:

The right-wing conservative media in south Korea including "Dong-A Ilbo" are floating stories that in November last year the Pusan local police office uncovered and arrested four south Koreans who tried to circulate counterfeit 100 U.S. dollar notes after smuggling them into south Korea from China and the investigation resulted in clearly proving that those were counterfeited in the north.

Meanwhile, the puppets and the intelligence authorities of the U.S. are spreading the fiction, claiming that they agreed to tighten the watch over China and other countries where "counterfeit money" is in circulation in order to check the smuggling of "the north's counterfeit money" and to intercept the shipment of various materials which can be used for counterfeiting.

The "story about counterfeiting" was concocted by the Bush administration in the past in a bid to justify the financial sanctions against the DPRK. But when the story turned out to be a plot of the CIA it became a laughing stock of the world and the U.S. stopped talking about it any longer as it was nothing but a poor scenario with neither plausibility nor evidence.

As widely known to the world, it is south Korea and the U.S. where counterfeit money is openly circulated and all sorts of irregularities and swindles are rampant.

This being a hard reality, the puppets, in league with the U.S., revived the outdated anti-DPRK scenario which had been thrown into the dumping ground after its true nature was brought to light. This only reveals the deplorable position of those forces hostile to the DPRK in which they find themselves, much upset by their failure to seek a pretext for imposing additional "sanctions" against the DPRK over its just measure for bolstering up its nuclear deterrent for self-defence.

The Lee Myung Bak group would be well advised to stop peddling the U.S. hackneyed scenario that can convince no one so that it may not suffer bitter shame and confess to all cases of irregularities and corruption.

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