In brief
Kim Yo‑Jong, a senior workers’ party official, condemned Washington for continuing hostile actions, linking a Binance cryptocurrency theft to a DPRK‑backed hacking group and decrying U.S. military drills, sanctions, and human‑rights reports. She called the U.S. policy a new record of anti‑DPRK hostility and urged the United States to abandon its hostile stance as essential to resolving all problems.
A senior North Korean official announced on Wednesday that the United States had continued to send “hostile signals,” prompting her country to “reconsider the U.S. entity in various aspects.” Kim Yo‑Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, issued the remarks in a press statement released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
The statement was a response to U.S. allegations that a recent cryptocurrency theft—affecting billions of U.S. dollars at the Binance exchange—was connected to a hacking group that the DPRK claims to support. KCNA reported that Kim said the incident was “no more than a tip of the iceberg that shows the essence of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.”
“We do not regard the Binance hacking incident as any accidental and sudden case or isolated private scheme, but as an extension of Washington's invariable hostile policy toward the DPRK,”
Kim went on to argue that the U.S. “malicious attempt to get a political and strategic profit by abusing the case is producing a political side effect.” She also blamed Washington for its joint military drills with Japan and the Republic of Korea, its imposition of unilateral and multilateral sanctions, and the publication of the “Trafficking in Persons Report.” KCNA noted that the United States had set “new records of anti‑DPRK hostility” in denuclearization, human rights, cyber, sanctions and military affairs.
The U.S. abandonment of its hostile policy toward the DPRK is a major premise and key to solving all problems,”
Kim called for a reflective counteraction, stating that “as new records are being set in the implementation of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, it is natural that new records should be created in our reflective counteraction.” KCNA’s report ends with a statement that the DPRK will pursue a strategy to counter these perceived threats.
In short, the DPRK’s senior leadership, through Kim Yo‑Jong, identified the ongoing Binance hack, recent military exercises, sanctions, and human‑rights reporting as extensions of a broader hostile U.S. policy ringed by new “records of anti‑DPRK hostility.” The North Korean statement calls on the United States to abandon its hostile positioning as a prerequisite for resolving all problems. This exchange underscores the continued tension between the two nations amid the crypto‑hacking incident and other geopolitical disputes.
