North Korea is denying being involved in the hack on Binance. Korea Summit Press Pool/Getty Images

North Korea has denied that it was behind the $6.3 billion theft from cryptocurrency exchange Binance , calling the FBI's allegation a "grave political provocation."

In a Tuesday statement, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said: "The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a 'cyber criminal state,' claiming that it obtained information that a hacking organization 'supported' by the DPRK was involved in the incident."

The statement was carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency and republished by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.

"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," she added.

Kim also said Washington was using cybercrime allegations to damage North Korea's reputation.…