South Korean media outlet EDaily reported, that Pyongyang’s foreign minister refuted UN monitors claims that North Korean hackers had reaped more than USD 50m from at least three crypto-exchanges in North America, Europe and Asia between 2020 and mid-2021.
The UN monitors didn’t mention the United States directly, but they claimed that the information was obtained from a member state. They also mentioned data collected on North Korean crypto raids by American company Chainalysis.
The United States was accused by the ministry of being a “wiretapping king, hacking king and [expert] country when tampering is concerned.”
It claimed that accusations of crypto theft were “the kind of fabrication that only America” could “invent,” with its “constitutional rejection of North Korea deep “in it bone marrow.”
The ministry also claimed that accusations of theft of crypto currency were an “assault” on North Korean sovereignty – calling them examples “despicable behaviour” that Pyongyang will not tolerate.
Further, it was alleged that:
“The United States has long recognized that cyberspace is an important stage to maintain its monopolistic dominance and has built up vast cyber capabilities. It is ready to launch cyberattacks against its enemies and its allies with no hesitation.”
Pyongyang said that all this was reflected in the revelations made by Edward Snowden, a former US intelligence agent, which stated that American security agencies had spy on civilians and that they had also tapped phones of European leaders.
Washington was accused by the ministry of using “the common cyberspace of mankind for its hegemony” purposes.
It concluded that […] is guilty of “shameless theft” by claiming to be a cyber police officer and thereby naming other countries ‘cybercrime hotspots’.
