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Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, denied the country’s involvement in the recent operation to steal over $6 billion from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to state media on Tuesday morning.

In a statement released via the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Kim called the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) accusation that North Korea executed the heist “absurd” and that Pyongyang considers it evidence of “Washington’s hostile attitude toward the DPRK.”

“It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the U.S.