El Reg wrote:IBM, HP, others admit products laced with NORK GOLD
That high-pitched screaming your fan makes? It's not the fan.
IBM, HP, Seagate, and other companies have admitted that some of their products include gold from North Korea.
The companies disclosed in recent financial filings – first spotted by Foreign Policy – that some of their suppliers sourced gold from the "Central Bank of the DPR of Korea", according to filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The companies made these filings in response to a new reporting rule aimed at uncovering the links between stuff mined in troubled Central Africa and products sold or manufactured by US-listed companies.
IBM, HP, Garmin, Seagate, Windstream and other companies have all sourced component suppliers that at some point used gold bars smelted in the hell on earth located just below China and just above South Korea.
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