Kim Yo Jong warned on Wednesday, November 4, that North Korea would respond more strongly to what she called Washington’s unchanging hostile policy. The influential sister of leader Kim Jong Un also said Pyongyang had no reason to resume dialogue, as the FBI’s accusation over a Binance hack became the focus of her criticism of the United States.

How the cyber allegation entered the dispute

The FBI said on Saturday that TraderTraitor, a hacking group affiliated with North Korea, was responsible for the attack on the cryptocurrency platform Binance. That is an allegation by the US law-enforcement agency, not an attribution accepted by Pyongyang.

Kim had rejected the FBI’s account on Tuesday, calling it a grave political provocation. She described the allegation as part of what she called Washington’s unchanging hostile policy and said the United States was seeking political and strategic advantage from the case. Her latest warning broadens the response from denying the accusation to threatening stronger retaliation, though she did not specify what measures North Korea might take.

Kim’s statements frame the hacking allegation as an issue between the two governments, rather than an isolated cybercrime claim. The FBI’s attribution and North Korea’s rejection remain opposed positions; the available accounts do not resolve who carried out the attack.

Missile activity is a separate strand

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected several North Korean missiles launched from the Sondok area towards the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Wednesday. The South Korean and US militaries were analysing their characteristics, the JCS said, and had tracked preparations and launches.

That report concerns Wednesday’s launches. Separately, North Korea’s state news agency KCNA said the country tested strategic cruise missiles equipped with a new cluster-munition warhead on Monday. The accounts do not establish that the Wednesday launches were the same test or that either missile event was a response to the FBI’s accusation.

North Korea has also recently tested other weapons, including attack drones, a precision-guided torpedo system and an intermediate-range hypersonic missile, according to the reports. These developments add military activity to a period of sharp rhetoric, but do not by themselves clarify what Kim meant by a stronger response.

Dialogue remains uncertain

Kim said North Korea had no reason to meet with people she called hostile and untrustworthy while they maintained a confrontational policy. US President Donald Trump had raised the possibility of a summit with Kim Jong Un during his November Asia tour, but Pyongyang had given no positive signal, according to the report.

The immediate message is therefore that Kim is rejecting the prospect of talks while warning of a firmer response to US policy. Neither her remarks nor the missile reports specify what will happen next.