Birds of a Feather?

I absolutely, unequivocally, positively didn't see this one coming.

WASHINGTON — A leader of the Official Irish Republican Army has been indicted in the United States on charges he conspired with North Korea to circulate millions of dollars in phony U.S. currency, prosecutors said.

The indictment of Sean Garland, 71, and six other men by a federal grand jury in Washington marks the first time in a 16-year investigation that the government has alleged in court documents that North Korea plays a major role in counterfeiting $100 bills, known as Supernotes.

Garland was arrested Friday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he was attending a conference of the Irish Workers' Party. Garland is the party's president. The party is the political wing of the Official Irish Republican Army, which took its name after a split with the Provisional IRA, which had grown into the dominant anti-British paramilitary force.

The Irish Republican Army and North Korea, circulating counterfeit American currency? Wow. It doesn't get any wackier and more illegal than that.