Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Department Director of C.C., WPK

Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released the following press statement on November 2:

Recently, the cryptocurrency worth billions of U.S. dollars was stolen at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange "Binance". As regards this extra-large incident, the U.S. has made a trite provocation of linking it with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea again.

The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a "cyber criminal state", claiming that it obtained information that a hacking organization "supported" by the DPRK was involved in the incident.

But the U.S. assertion is an absurd rhetoric and nothing new.

This is not the first time that the U.S. has attempted to spread misunderstanding of the DPRK in the international community, blindly linking the DPRK with the "cyber crime" incidents whenever they occur on an international scale.

Last year, the U.S. also tried to blame the DPRK for the hacking incident at the cryptocurrency exchange called "Bybit".

It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the U.S. misleads the international public opinion as if all the cyber crimes in different parts of the world are our deeds.

This is a sinister attempt to damage the international image of the DPRK and undermine its dignity and national prestige and another grave violation of the sovereignty of the DPRK in the new sphere.

It is the consistent policy stand of the DPRK government to resolutely oppose all sorts of malicious acts in cyberspace, the wealth common to the mankind, and resolutely reject any attempt to politicize the cyber issue and use it as a means of interfering in the internal affairs with other countries.

The international community needs to recall once again the fact that as soon as the present U.S. administration took office last year, it announced that it would confiscate illegally stolen cryptocurrency assets and use them as a state's strategic reserve.

If it carefully examines who will get the large amount of the so-called stolen cryptocurrency when the latter is retrieved, it may get a clue about who is behind the hacking incident.

On this occasion, we confirmed Washington's hostile attitude toward the DPRK once again and are closely monitoring a variety of persistent provocations of the U.S. against our state.

We have issues to reconsider in diverse aspects as regards the very unpleasant U.S. hostile attitude. -0-