N. Korean leader's sister blasts FBI's crypto theft probe as 'political provocation'
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North Korea on Tuesday flatly dismissed the outcome of a U.S. investigation that blamed Pyongyang for a massive cryptocurrency theft from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, calling it a “grave political provocation” against the North. Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, made the remarks, referring to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) announcement Saturday that the regime is responsible for the theft of more than US$6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance. The FBI linked the theft to a North Korean hacking group it calls TraderTraitor, a name previously tied to other cryptocurrency heists. “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,” Kim said in a statement carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). DPRK is short for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). “It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the U.S.
