‘PREPOSTEROUS FALSEHOODS’

North Korea: U.S. ‘Smear Campaign’ Undercuts Trump-Kim Agreement

Fury over Washington’s charges for alleged Sony hacker.

The rocky relationship between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un has hit another low. North Korea has accused the U.S. on Friday of making up “preposterous falsehoods” after Washington charged an alleged hacker for the North Korean government over a series of cyberattacks. The statement, signed by a researcher at a foreign ministry institute, said the charges could undermine the agreements reached between Trump and Kim Jong Un that were signed earlier this year. “The U.S. is totally mistaken if it seeks to gain anything from us through preposterous falsehoods and highhandedness,” wrote Han Yong Song. “The U.S. should seriously ponder over the negative consequences of circulating falsehoods and inciting antagonism against the DPRK that may affect the implementation of the joint statement adopted at the DPRK-U.S. summit.” The statement went on to call Park Jin Hyok, accused of hacking on behalf of the North Korean military, a “nonentity” and called the charges “vicious slander and another smear campaign.”