TraderTraitor was also blamed for stealing US$1.5 billion from the Bybit platform in February last year, the largest crypto theft until the Binance hack. (Binance pic)SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday slammed the FBI's allegations that Pyongyang was behind the theft of US$6 billion from cryptocurrency platform Binance, with Kim Jong Un's powerful sister labelling it a "grave political provocation".

Kim Yo Jong, in a statement released Tuesday by the KCNA state news agency, said the FBI's claim was "absurd rhetoric and nothing new," given prior US allegations that North Korea was behind last year's major hack of Bybit.

"It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the US misleads the international public opinion as if all the cyber crimes in different parts of the world are our deeds," Kim said, using the acronym for North Korea's official name.