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North Korea has accused the United States of counterfeiting its own currency to fabricate evidence that the communist state is engaged in manufacturing fake us dollar bills.
The claim, issued on Wednesday by North Korean police, said the authorities have obtained ‘‘shocking information’’ that the CIA hired counterfeit experts to produce fake currencies at US military bases around the world.
‘‘They let these notes find their way to the DPRK (Democratic people’s Republic of Korea) and go out of it in the course of commercial transaction in a desperate bid to term it ‘producer of counterfeit notes’,’’ the North’s Ministry of People’s Security said in the statement, carried by Korean Central News Agency.
The US has accused North Korea of counterfeiting $100 bills, one of the alleged illegal activities carried out by Pyongyang that has prompted Washington to slap financial sanctions against the Korean state. North Korea has called the accusations a ‘‘sheer lie’’ and pledged it won’t return to six-nation talks on its nuclear programme unless the sanctions are lifted.
