Why was the U.S. government's effort to avoid monetary counterfeiting in 1996 met with disappointment?

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North Korea's acquisition of the same currency-printing technology that the U.S. Department of Treasury had bought from a Swiss company undermined efforts to prevent counterfeiting. This technology was intended to make U.S. currency more difficult to counterfeit, but its acquisition by North Korea meant that they could potentially produce counterfeit U.S. currency with the same level of sophistication.

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