For decades, North Korea has been helping the Treasury increase the money supply by counterfeiting virtually undetectable US$100 notes. In recent years, the program has accelerated.
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Could this be a breakthrough in the stalled six-party anti-nuke talks with the North Koreans? In exchange for stopping their nuclear weopons program, the US could agree to make the counterfeiting operation an adjunct to the US Treasury. The US could retain face and declare victory by not giving into bribing the North Koreans to stop making their nukes. And as Cheney has oft-time remarked, Raygun proved that deficits don't matter.
Alternatively, counterfeiting another country's currency is a casus belli under international law. (The last time anyone knows that this happened was when Germany was counterfeiting British 5-pound notes during World War II.) Since North Korea is not violating any international law for developing its nuke program, this could give Bush the legal authority to invade North Korea and eliminate another member of the "axis of evil." Since China is unlikely to allow the US to invade North Korea from its territory, this would give Bush the opportunity to again show the American military's prowness by engaging in the largest amphibious invasion in world history. It certainly fits the Bush Doctrine of preventive war.
Should Bush use the diplomatic or the military option to stop the nuke program in North Korea?