{"id":1006656,"date":"2026-05-04T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006656"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:40:58","slug":"north-korea-calls-us-cyber-crime-accusations-absurd-slander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/north-korea-calls-us-cyber-crime-accusations-absurd-slander\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea calls US cyber crime accusations &#8216;absurd slander&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea dismissed on Sunday US accusations that it has engaged in cyber crimes to generate illicit revenues, calling the criticism &#8220;absurd slander&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Washington has accused Pyongyang of ramping up a cyber-warfare program responsible for the theft of billions of dollars in virtual assets in recent years, turning hacking into a key source of foreign currency in the face of biting sanctions over its nuclear and weapons programmes. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, an unnamed foreign ministry spokesperson said the US government had been &#8220;trying to spread incorrect understanding&#8221; about North Korea, &#8220;talking about the non-existent &#8216;cyber threat'&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea dismissed on Sunday US accusations that it has engaged in cyber crimes to generate illicit revenues, calling the criticism &#8220;absurd slander&#8221;. Washington has accused Pyongyang of ramping up a cyber-warfare program responsible for the theft of billions of dollars in virtual assets in recent years, turning hacking into a key source of foreign currency in the face of biting sanctions over its nuclear and weapons programmes. In a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency, an unnamed foreign ministry spokesperson said the US government had been &#8220;trying to spread incorrect understanding&#8221; about North Korea, &#8220;talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006657,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006656\/revisions\/1006657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}