In brief
Kim Yo Jong, director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, blasted the United States on November 4 for continuing hostile signals, citing a Binance hacking incident as proof of Washington’s aggressive policy. She demanded a reassessment of U.S. actions across sanctions, cyber, human‑rights reports, and joint military drills with Japan and South Korea.
On Wednesday, November 4, Pyongyang, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea issued a scathing rebuke to the United States, accusing Washington of continuing to send “hostile signals,” according to a statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency. The remarks were made by Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
Kim linked the United States’ allegation that a recent cryptocurrency heist at Binance was facilitated by a hacking group allegedly “supported” by the DPRK to a broader pattern of Washington’s hostile conduct. “The Binance hacking incident is not an accidental or isolated private scheme but an extension of Washington’s invariable hostile policy toward the DPRK,” she said, according to KCNA.
In her statement, Kim also slammed U.S. joint military drills under various missions with Japan and the Republic of Korea, noting that such operations, together with unilateral and multilateral sanctions, the “Trafficking in Persons Report,” and other hostile measures, constituted new records of anti‑DPRK hostility in areas she listed as denuclearization, human rights, cyber, sanctions, and military affairs.
She called for the United States to reconsider its “entity” in a variety of domains and urged that abandonment of its hostile policy be a “major premise and key” for resolving all problems between the two sides.
