Kim Yo-jong, North Korea’s vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Yonhap) Kim Yo-jong, a ranking Workers’ Party of Korea official and the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, on Wednesday again rejected US allegations that Pyongyang was behind a cryptocurrency theft from Binance, warning that North Korea sees no reason to resume dialogue with Washington unless it abandons its hostile policy.”The so-called ‘cryptocurrency hacking case by the DPRK’ is no more than a tip of (an) iceberg that shows the essence of the US hostile policy toward the DPRK,” Kim said, referring to North Korea by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”We have already and repeatedly clarified that the US abandonment of its hostile policy toward the DPRK is a major premise and key to solving all problems,” she said.Kim, who serves as vice department director of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, issued the remarks in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.The statement is her second in three days after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation accused North Korean hackers Saturday of stealing more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.Kim also said that Pyongyang would not engage with Washington under its current approach.”It is our clear stand that we have no need to sit face to face with such unreliable and hostile persons who refuse to abandon their policy of confrontation,” she said.She stopped short of ruling out dialogue, however, suggesting that any talks would have to serve North Korea’s national interests.”The choice for peace includes dialogue of course, but this is not surely equated with national interests for us,” she said.Kim also criticized a recent trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of South Korea, the United States and Japan, during which they reaffirmed their commitment to North Korea’s complete denuclearization, as well as joint military exercises involving Seoul and Washington.She warned that Pyongyang would respond to continued US hostility, without specifying what measures it might take.”In the present reality when new records are being set in the implementation of the US hostile policy toward the DPRK, it is natural that new records should be created in our reflective counteraction,” she said.In her earlier statement, Kim dismissed the FBI’s findings as a “grave political provocation” aimed at portraying North Korea as a cybercriminal state.The FBI attributed the theft to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking group previously linked to major cryptocurrency heists, including the $1.5 billion theft from cryptocurrency exchange Bybit in 2025.The latest exchange comes amid speculation over a possible resumption of diplomacy between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump has expressed interest in meeting Kim again, but Pyongyang has yet to respond positively to his overtures.If the two leaders met, it would mark their first face-to-face encounter since June 2019, when they held an impromptu meeting at the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom.
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