In brief
On Nov. 4, 2026, Kim Yo‑Jong of the Workers’ Party of Korea declared that Washington continued to send hostile signals, calling the recent Binance‑related hacking incident an extension of U.S. policy and attacking joint military drills with Japan and South Korea, sanctions and human‑rights reports. She urged a review of U.S. actions and warned that new records of anti‑DPRK hostility would be met with counter‑action. Korean media outlets echoed the statement, but no U.S. response has been documented.
On Wednesday, November 4, 2026, Kim Yo‑Jong, director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, announced that the United States was continuing to send “hostile signals” toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The statement, released through the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), linked a recent Binance cryptocurrency hack to a DPRK‑backed hacking group and criticized U.S. military exercises and sanctions.
According to the KCNA report, Kim said the Binance incident was not a “random or isolated private scheme” but “an extension of Washington’s invariable hostile policy toward the DPRK.” She added that the U.S. was attempting to profit politically and strategically by exploiting the situation, thereby producing a “political side effect.”
"We do not regard the Binance hacking incident as any accidental and sudden case or isolated private scheme, but as an extension of Washington's invariable hostile policy toward the DPRK," Kim stated. "The U.S. malicious attempt to get political and strategic profit by abusing the case is producing a political side effect," she added.
In her remarks, Kim also denounced U.S. joint military drills with Japan and the Republic of Korea, describing them as part of a broader hostile agenda that included unilateral and multilateral sanctions and the publication of the “Trafficking in Persons Report.” She called the U.S. policy a new record of anti‑DPRK hostility and urged the United States to abandon its hostile stance as key to resolving all problems.
South Korean news outlets, including Maeil Business News Korea and the Chosun Business website, reported Kim’s statement in similar wording, echoing her call for reflection on U.S. actions. No U.S. statement in response to the DPRK’s claims has been reported at the time of this writing.
