The Justice Department plans to announce charges Thursday against a North Korean government spy in connection with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, according to reports.

The suspected hacker, Pak Jin Hyok, acted on behalf of the Hermit Kingdom’s Reconnaissance General Bureau, the military intelligence agency that controls most of the country’s cyber capabilities, the Washington Post reported, citing US officials.

Pak is linked to the Lazarus Group, which also has been implicated in the brazen attempt to use cyber techniques to swipe $1 billion from the Bangladesh Bank in 2016, and to the WannaCry computer virus that infiltrated more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries in 2017.

The Treasury Department on Thursday also is expected to announce sanctions on North Koreans tied to the malicious activities, according to the newspaper.

In the massive cyberattack on Sony, hackers erased data from thousands of computers and stole tens of thousands of documents, including some emails embarrassing to the higher-ups, along with several movies that were posted on file-sharing sites.

US officials believed the Sony hack was in retaliation for “The Interview,” a satirical film that starred Seth Rogen and James Franco and centered on a plot to assassinate North Korean despot Kim Jong Un.

Sony canceled the release of the film amid threats to moviegoers.

The Justice Department in recent years has charged hackers from China, Iran and Russia in hopes of publicly shaming other countries for sponsoring cyberattacks on American corporations.

In 2014, the Obama administration charged five Chinese military hackers with several digital break-ins at US companies, and last year, the Justice Department charged Russian hackers with an intrusion at Yahoo Inc.

President Trump’s administration blamed the rogue regime late last year for the WannaCry ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide in May 2017 and crippled parts of Britain’s National Health Service.

With Post wires