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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 10K a day who wrote (8191)	8/17/2006 2:31:31 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

W.House: NKorea counterfeiting supports terrorism Reuters via Yahoo ^ \| 8/17/2006 The White House accused North Korea on Thursday of counterfeiting dollars to support terrorism and said the United States would continue to try to stem such illicit activity as well as Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program have been stalled since November after Pyongyang objected to a U.S. crackdown on companies suspected of helping the country in counterfeiting. The United States has accused North Korea of conducting illicit financial activities, including counterfeiting $100 bills, to help finance its nuclear arms program. Pyongyang denies involvement in such activities and says Washington wants to topple its leadership. North Korea has refused to return to negotiations on its nuclear program with the other five parties -- the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia. "We have already gone after counterfeiting activities on the part of the government of North Korea, but at the same time the whole point of the six-party talks is to find some way to create a non-nuclear Korean peninsula," White House spokesman Tony Snow said. "The two are not exclusive aims and the United States has not simply been going after one goal." North Korea exacerbated international concerns about its nuclear ambitions last month when it fired seven missiles. Snow accused North Korea of stalling and not returning to talks because it was using illicit activities to fund terrorism. "The North Koreans have walked away because they are doing money laundering to finance global terror. We don't want them to have money to finance global terror, sorry, period," Snow said. "We don't think it's in our interest to allow them to be selling weapons that could be used to destroy innocent human lives," he said. U.S. officials are mulling how NATO could change its rules so member states may more easily board North Korean-flagged ships to stop weapons-related items flowing to and from Pyongyang.