2022.7.26.
http://www.mfa.gov.kp/view/article/15506
The U.S. is overstepping the bounds of its despicable act to incite an international atmosphere against the DPRK by slandering our state as a “cybercriminal state”.
Recently, the U.S. issued a “joint alert” against us, “comprehensive cyber-report” and so on. High-ranking officials of the U.S. administration including the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Justice and Assistant Secretary of the State Department reeled off groundless allegation that we let disguised “hackers” work for foreign enterprises to steal funds by cyber-attack.
Taking sides with this, the U.S. policy study institutes and private enterprises also indulge in a smear campaign against us.
This indeed is the worst case of a guilty party filing the suit first and the height of impudence.
That the U.S., the biggest kingdom of hacking, tapping empire and unprecedented cybercriminal state comments on “cyber threat” from the other is absurd and groundless sophism.
As has been already known, it is none other than the U.S. which introduced the concept of cyber war for the first time in the 1990s, and established a large network of intelligence theft throughout the world under the projects like “Prism”, “Irritant Horn” and “Stellarwind”.
It is none other than the U.S. that mobilized 60,000 secret agents to steal enterprise intelligence in various countries, spread false information through SNS, etc, thus made it its business to commit all kinds of cybercrimes during the past decade.
In February, an anonymous U.S. hacker with the ID of “P4x” admitted in public that he launched a hacking attack against the DPRK. This alone is an enough example that demonstrates who is the offender and who is the victim of cybercrimes between the DPRK and the U.S.
If that is the case, what is the U.S. ulterior purpose of finding fault with us by talking about the so-called “cyber threat” of its fabrication and stratagem?
It is to tarnish the external image of the DPRK and internationally isolate us so as to turn even the cyber space into the venue for applying sanctions to the DPRK.
It is also linked with it that the U.S. and its vassal forces are busy putting their heads together to draft an anti-DPRK “sanctions” plan in the cyber field.
We flatly condemn the U.S. for its repeated “cyber threats”, taking it as an insult to dignity of our state and a political provocation.
The DPRK Association for Countermeasures against International Cybercrimes will keep close tabs on all cybercrimes against the DRPK committed by the U.S. and let it pay for them.
Kim Jun Hyok
Division Director
Association for Countermeasures against International Cybercrimes
