Kim Yo Jong Ties FBI’s Binance Hack Blame to Trump’s Crypto Reserve

Kim Yo Jong , a senior official of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, said the international community should look at who stands to receive the crypto taken from Binance once it is recovered, hinting that Washington could be behind the hack, as Pyongyang dismissed the FBI’s finding that its hackers carried out the theft. The statement, released Nov. 2 through KCNA, is North Korea’s first comment on the incident, according to South Korean broadcaster SBS. Kim called the U.S. position “an absurd rhetoric and nothing new” and said blaming her country for cyber crimes worldwide was a “grave political provocation.” She then urged the international community to recall that the Trump administration announced soon after taking office last year that it would seize stolen crypto and keep it as a…

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