New Delhi, Nov. 4 -- Kim Yo Jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, has rejected the US allegations that cyber criminals linked to Pyongyang were behind the massive heist of crypto exchange Binance. According to state news agency KCNA, Kim Yo Jong said the US allegations proved Washington remained hostile towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Pyongyang has not responded to US President Donald Trump's overtures, made earlier this year, to resume summit diplomacy. In the wake of the US allegations, Kim Yo Jong said ​North Korea had "issues to reconsider" over what she called US hostility.

"The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a 'cyber criminal state,' claiming that it obtained information that...