There is no information as to how the US bank has responded to the request, and whether it came from the US Treasury, or State Department, each of whom has taken a slightly different position with regard to the settlement of the North Korean funds issue, which should supposedly result in the closing of the DPRK nuclear weapons programme.

Is not the movement of tainted funds through an American bank to give them a sense of legitimacy technically money laundering? I know that the US is desperate to get the DPRK to shut down its weapons of mass destruction manufacturing programme, but this should not be done at the expense of one of our largest financial institutions.

If the North Korean BDA money was the proceeds of crime, it is not the job of the US banking community to clean it up in the eyes of the world. This sends the wrong message to the financial world, that the United States will ignore the AML laws for political expediency.

Let the US State Department find another way to  assist North Korea, who still prints and distributes the "super note," a superior counterfeit US $100 bill. Why do we not force it to close that illicit printing facility, and deliver to us the printing plates for those illegal notes?