How North Korea Made the Perfect Counterfeit $100 Bill

Summary by Krater

This video details the history of US currency counterfeiting, why pre-Civil War bank notes were so easy to fake, and how North Korea developed highly accurate "superdollars" in the 1980s and 1990s.

From the video

Answers: How were North Korean superdollars made and how do they compare to real US currency?

• history of US currency
• pre-Civil War banknote counterfeiting
• paper currency manufacturing security features
• North Korean superdollars
• Operation Bernhard

Ingredients

• pork tenderloin
• carrots
• rice
• sesame seeds

What it concludes

• Before 1861, over 1500 private banks issued their own unique bills, making counterfeiting extremely easy.
• US paper money is composed of 75 percent cotton, 25 percent linen, and security fibers, rather than paper.
• North Korea's Room 39 produced counterfeit $100 bills known as superdollars with almost imperceptible flaws.
• Foreign counterfeiting operations have historically been considered acts of war.