How many more Irish people will be smeared by him and his lackeys in
Irish politics and de meeja?

From http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/

McClatchy Newspapers’ Kevin G. Hall puts the final nail in the myth
attributing “supernotes” — almost perfect counterfeit $100 bills — to
North Korea.

In an article titled “U.S. counterfeiting charges against N. Korea based
on shaky evidence,” Hall identifies and demolishes the central role
played by defector testimony:

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However, a 10-month McClatchy investigation on three continents has found
that the evidence to support Bush’s charges against North Korea is
uncertain at best and that the claims of the North Korean defectors cited
in news accounts are dubious and perhaps bogus. One key law enforcement
agency, the Swiss federal criminal police, has publicly questioned
whether North Korea is even capable of producing “supernotes,”
counterfeit $100 bills that are nearly perfect except for some
practically invisible additions.

Many of the administration’s public allegations about North Korean
counterfeiting trace to North Korea “experts” in South Korea who arranged
interviews with North Korean defectors for U.S. and foreign newspapers.
The resulting news reports were quoted by members of Congress,
researchers and Bush administration officials who were seeking to
pressure North Korea.

The defectors’ accounts, for example, were cited prominently in a lengthy
July 23, 2006, New York Times magazine story that charged North Korea
with producing the sophisticated supernotes.

The McClatchy investigation, however, found reason to question those
sources. One major source for several stories, a self-described chemist
named Kim Dong-shik, has gone into hiding, and a former roommate, Moon
Kook-han, said Kim is a liar out for cash who knew so little about
American currency that he didn’t know whose image is printed on the $100
bill. (It’s Benjamin Franklin.)

The Secret Service, the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department
all declined repeated requests for interviews for this story.

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The story has a whole bunch of good stuff, including stories by Tim
Johnson and government documents such as the 2004 indictment of Sean
Garland, leader of an IRA-splinter group, for counterfeiting.