PYONGYANG, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- A senior official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Wednesday that the United States had continued to send "hostile signals," prompting her country to "reconsider the U.S. entity in various aspects."
Kim Yo Jong, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made the remarks in a press statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
In the latest response to a U.S. allegation linking a recent cryptocurrency heist involving billions of U.S. dollars at Binance to a hacking group allegedly "supported" by the DPRK, Kim called it "no more than a tip of the iceberg that shows the essence of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK," KCNA said in its report, citing her statement.
"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," she was quoted as saying.
"The U.S. malicious attempt to get a political and strategic profit by abusing the case is producing a political side effect," she said.
Lashing out at Washington for staging joint military drills under various missions with Japan and the Republic of Korea, as well as its imposition of unilateral and multilateral sanctions and the publication of the "Trafficking in Persons Report," the statement noted that the U.S. has recently set "new records of anti-DPRK hostility" in the realms of denuclearization, human rights, cyber, sanctions and military affairs.
As new records are being set in the implementation of the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK, "it is natural that new records should be created in our reflective counteraction," said the official.
"The U.S. abandonment of its hostile policy toward the DPRK is a major premise and key to solving all problems," she said. ■