Wonder why we've been changing the look of our money lately? Making it harder to counterfeit, and in the process far less attractive and on par with the other monopoly-monies of the world? No more artwork gang, gone are the dazzling portraits and lavish scenes, for counterfeiting is becoming a real threat to the economy ever since North Korea bagan a state sponsored funny-money operation specializing in US bills, and let's face it; the Clinton administration selected a lot of the new designs so enough said.
"North Korea is also the first government known to produce "Monopoly money" since the Nazis. Indeed, it's the world's premier counterfeiter of U.S. currency, especially the $100 bill. Known as the "supernote" due to its primo quality, the Korean fake far surpasses the paper that comes out of the Latin American and Eastern European crime syndicates.
Since the first "supernote" was discovered in Manila and Belgrade in 1989, Pyongyang has printed at least 19 new versions to keep up with U.S. Mint changes, the Washington Times recently reported. Over the last 16 years, authorities have seized $45 million in supernotes."
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