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Porn Wars Continue In Korea

» by GI Korea September 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm » Comments (3)

I posted before on the legal spat between US and Korean porn producers and now it appears this spat is growing: Illegal downloads are a problem not even Apple, the maker ...more »

Louis Vuitton Wins Forgery Case In Korea

» by GI Korea September 12th, 2009 at 10:15 am » Comments (4)

This is the first time I have ever seen a counterfeiter in Korea lose a lawsuit like this: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="377" caption="At left is a Santa V-branded bag, which a ...more »

Did North Korea Counterfeit US Treasury Bonds?

» by GI Korea July 14th, 2009 at 6:00 am » Comments (8)

This news from last month I some how missed about a massive attempt at counterfeiting US Treasury Bonds that was uncovered in Italy: Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) has ...more »

North Korean General O Kuk-ryol Linked to North Korean Counterfeiting Operations

» by GI Korea June 3rd, 2009 at 8:47 pm » Comments (1)

Yesterday I spotlighted the counterfeiting activities of the North Korean regime and coincidentally enough today comes even more news about the North Korean counterfeiting operations: The most recent evidence of North ...more »

Stuart Levey Flies to Seoul, Are Financial Sanctions On the Way?

» by GI Korea June 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 pm » Comments (9)

Via One Free Korea comes the best news I have heard all day: A United States government official who played a key role in freezing North Korean assets in 2005 will ...more »

Operation Smoking Dragon: The North Korean Counterfeiting Case Few Care About

» by GI Korea March 19th, 2009 at 4:58 pm » Comments (4)

Via the Korea Economic Reader comes this article on how few people seem to care about North Korea's counterfeiting activities: Maybe I’m wrong about the third line, but two weeks ago ...more »

Geumgang Resort Used to Launder Counterfeit US Currency

» by GI Korea October 6th, 2008 at 10:07 pm » Comments (4)

I surely hope no one is surprised by the fact that North Korea was using the Geumgang Tourist Resort to launder counterfeit money: A governing party lawmaker claimed Sunday that the ...more »

Macau Money Returned to North Korea

» by GI Korea June 16th, 2007 at 9:50 am » Comments (9)

The frozen Banco Delta Asia money has been returned to North Korea: Money at the heart of a dispute that caused North Korea to delay its nuclear disarmament was finally making ...more »

Tracking the North Korean Supernote

» by GI Korea March 13th, 2007 at 6:03 am » Comments (10)

This article from the Asia Sentinel is a must read for anyone remotely interested in the North Korean counterfeiting of US currency. The reporters travel to China to see ...more »

US & China Further Crackdown on North Korean Counterfeiting

» by GI Korea July 25th, 2006 at 2:26 am » Comments (0)

It looks like Kim Jong-il may have crossed China one too many times:: The Bank of China has frozen North Korea's accounts at a branch in Macau due to Pyongyang's counterfeiting ...more »

Chinese Gang Busted with Nork Made Counterfeit Money

» by GI Korea August 24th, 2005 at 7:19 am » Comments (4)

One Free Korea is reporting about a large bust in Atlantic City of a Chinese gang that was smuggling both drugs and counterfeit money from North Korea into the country: The ...more »
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