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-
http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/873496f71f6ab3e667a4271b5a4cf4c6
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.
This part insinuates that the Trump administration is behind the Binance hack.
They have every reason to sling shit at the usa and no reason to claim they did it.
I don’t think you should take any claims from official channels of any state about who did what why seriously. Especially when it’s relating to crime.
Without independent evidence this is no more credible than the initial accusations were.
DPRK is operating on an ancient proverb, “whoever smelt it dealt it”. The US media was very quick to blame DPRK, without investigation. That is suspicious.
The reasons I would believe that the US was behind the Binance hack is because the US has conducted false flag attacks in the past and false flag hacks in the past.
The US government has previously blamed China for hacks and China reported that it was a false flag conducted by the US. An example is the hacker group named “Volt Typhoon”. The US alleged that Volt Typhoon had hacked City Water Systems in the United States.
You can’t invert stupidity and arrive at wisdom
We should not believe the DPRK at their word and they haven’t really produced anything besides their word, but their argument here seems more reasonable than the ones levied against them, given the long history of blaming all these attacks on them without substantial evidence. Obviously not enough to have a firm conclusion, but while the official statement was probably doing understatement for rhetorical effect, I think the literal reading that US policy “may” convey a “clue” about what happened and why is correct.
They have every reason to sling shit at the usa
Actually I think they’d prefer to be left alone rather than be blamed for everything every time
I really don’t think I should have to preface every comment with “given that we live in a world and with consideration to the current conditions of it:”
i bet israel did it
source: c’mon now
Dprk steals fake money that binance is not worried about losing for some reason
Also dprk is featured in new propaganda game as evil bad guy
Plainly, what would the dprk do with Bitcoin? What value could it have there? Who would they trade it to?
Yeah, even if they were stealing all of this crypto I wonder how long it would take to wash it into I’m guessing Russian rubles or Chinese Yuan for trade.
Sell it on Coinbase and ask them to “send $6 billion in cash to the DPRK plz thnx”
