From the Korea Times: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200407/kt2004070616242354140.htm  The Currency of Currency By Andrei Lankov Communists have always professed to abolish money _ and for a while they took the promise seriously. The first years of the Communist rule in Russia were marked by bold experiments aimed at the abolition of the currency which was to be replaced … Continue reading North Korean Monetary History