Kim Yo-jong calls North Korea's involvement 'outrageous' after Binance's crypto asset leak

[Seoul Current Affairs] In a statement on the 2nd, North Korea's General Affairs Minister Kim Yo Jong criticized the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s announcement that North Korea was involved in the illegal leakage of a huge amount of assets from Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange business, calling it ``outrageous.'' The Korean Central News Agency reported on the 3rd.

1 trillion yen illegal leak "North Korea was involved" Binance crypto assets were money laundered - FBI

Yo Jong said that the United States is "misguiding international public opinion" by pretending that cybercrime around the world is the work of North Korea, and criticized it as a "political provocation." "This is a serious violation of sovereignty that stems from a new territory," the statement said.

At the end of October, Binance announced that it had suffered a cyber attack that resulted in the loss of crypto assets worth approximately $6.3 billion (approximately 990 billion yen). The FBI has revealed that the North Korean hacker group ``TraderTratar'' laundered the stolen assets.