How Does Inside North Korea's BILLION-Dollar World of Fake Money Work?

North Korea makes fake money that looks really real, kind of like when you color inside the lines and it looks just like a picture from your coloring book.

Imagine you have a piggy bank full of coins, but instead of keeping them all, you take some and make copies of them. That’s what North Korea does, but with bills, like the paper money we use to buy candy or toys. They print so many that it feels like they have a never-ending supply.

North Korea has special machines, kind of like super-fast copy machines, that make perfect copies of real money. These copies are so good, sometimes you can't tell them apart from the real ones unless you look really closely, like when you check if your homework is copied or not.

They do this a lot because they need extra money to trade with other countries or buy things they want. It’s like when you have extra allowance money and use it to buy more toys than you can carry home, only North Korea does it on a billion-dollar scale! North Korea makes fake money that looks really real, kind of like when you color inside the lines and it looks just like a picture from your coloring book.

Imagine you have a piggy bank full of coins, but instead of keeping them all, you take some and make copies of them. That’s what North Korea does, but with bills, like the paper money we use to buy candy or toys. They print so many that it feels like they have a never-ending supply.