Yes, all 4 points in your post check out — this is from AP / KCNA on Tuesday Nov 3.$AGT $IDOL $ICNT
*1. FBI Accusation:*
Oct 31, FBI + Secret Service + IRS-CI formally attributed the Oct 29 theft to *TraderTraitor*, a North Korean state-sponsored group inside Lazarus. Same group blamed for the $1.5B Bybit hack in Feb 2025. FBI published 608 ETH + 19 BTC + 1 SOL addresses.
*2. North Korea's Response:*
Kim Yo Jong, via state media KCNA, issued a statement Tuesday:
> "The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a 'cyber criminal state'... But the US assertion is absurd rhetoric and nothing new."
> "It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the US misleads international public opinion as if all the cyber crimes in different parts of the world are our deeds."
She also rejected the Bybit attribution in the same statement, and — without evidence — flipped it, suggesting the US itself could be behind it:
> "If it carefully examines who will get the large amount of the so-called stolen cryptocurrency when the latter is retrieved, it may get a clue about who is behind the hacking incident."
She added North Korea now has "issues to reconsider" over the "very unpleasant US hostile attitude" — a clear signal this is also about Trump's offer to resume summit diplomacy, which Pyongyang has ignored so far.
*3. Massive Theft:*
$6.34B - $6.36B across 10 chains, per Binance, TRM Labs and Chainalysis. Largest crypto heist ever. $2.85B frozen/intercepted so far, ∼$3.24B still in attacker wallets per Elliptic.
*4. Trump's Response — the split:*
You caught the key contradiction. At his Mar-a-Lago Halloween party Saturday night, after the FBI attribution, Trump told reporters:
> "I'm not concerned. We're learning about it. We don't know if it's North Korea,"
He added investigators could still determine it was North Korea. He also said he's open to meeting Kim Jong Un in 2026.
*1. FBI Accusation:*
Oct 31, FBI + Secret Service + IRS-CI formally attributed the Oct 29 theft to *TraderTraitor*, a North Korean state-sponsored group inside Lazarus. Same group blamed for the $1.5B Bybit hack in Feb 2025. FBI published 608 ETH + 19 BTC + 1 SOL addresses.
*2. North Korea's Response:*
Kim Yo Jong, via state media KCNA, issued a statement Tuesday:
> "The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a 'cyber criminal state'... But the US assertion is absurd rhetoric and nothing new."
> "It is a grave political provocation against the DPRK that the US misleads international public opinion as if all the cyber crimes in different parts of the world are our deeds."
She also rejected the Bybit attribution in the same statement, and — without evidence — flipped it, suggesting the US itself could be behind it:
> "If it carefully examines who will get the large amount of the so-called stolen cryptocurrency when the latter is retrieved, it may get a clue about who is behind the hacking incident."
She added North Korea now has "issues to reconsider" over the "very unpleasant US hostile attitude" — a clear signal this is also about Trump's offer to resume summit diplomacy, which Pyongyang has ignored so far.
*3. Massive Theft:*
$6.34B - $6.36B across 10 chains, per Binance, TRM Labs and Chainalysis. Largest crypto heist ever. $2.85B frozen/intercepted so far, ∼$3.24B still in attacker wallets per Elliptic.
*4. Trump's Response — the split:*
You caught the key contradiction. At his Mar-a-Lago Halloween party Saturday night, after the FBI attribution, Trump told reporters:
> "I'm not concerned. We're learning about it. We don't know if it's North Korea,"
He added investigators could still determine it was North Korea. He also said he's open to meeting Kim Jong Un in 2026.
