North Korean Counterfeiting of U.S. Money Deserves Sanctions: Kim Jong-Il's Government Doesn't Deserve to Exist

North Korea's protesting U.S. economic policy toward them is laughable. They brought U.S. ire down on themselves.

Pyongyang suspended it's participation in six-nation nuclear talks because of their anger with the U.S. government going after international banks that were aiding and abetting North Korean government counterfeiting of U.S. dollars among other things.

In fact, the recent changes in how our money looks is an effort to curb North Korean counterfeiting of U.S. dollars. So the next time you have an orange-back $10 bill in your hand, it's (in large part) because of North Korea's illegal activities.

Kim Jong-Il's officials use their counterfeit U.S. money to maintain an extravagant lifestyle while their destitute people STARVE to death.

This North Korean government must disappear from the face of the Earth and it's members prosecuted for allowing so many of their own people to suffer and die while Kim Jong-Il and his brood get fat at the costly expense of so many others.

Here's a historical context to put this in as provided by Claudia Rosett of USA Today in Friday's USA Today:

In 1994, when Kim Jong Il took over from his late father, North Korea was pursuing the nuclear bomb. Hoping to coax Kim into the civilized fold, the United States led the way in setting up a nuclear-freeze deal, in which a consortium of nations sent North Korea fuel and food, and began building Kim two modern nuclear reactors.

Kim pocketed the aid for his military, starved to death an estimated 1 to 2 million North Koreans, test-fired a missile in 1998 over Japan, sold missiles to the Middle East and cheated on the nuclear freeze. When U.S. diplomats finally confronted North Korea in 2002 over its secret uranium enrichment program, Kim's regime declared it had every right to nuclear weapons, fired up its old Yongbyon nuclear plant, renounced the non-proliferation treaty, threatened the United States, Japan and South Korea with a "sea of fire" and "total war," and in 2004 invited a U.S. delegation to come gaze upon a sample of plutonium.

The U.N. Security Council ought to get busy and start securing North Korea's cooperation by any means necessary. And if that means imposing sanctions, then they should DO IT!