North Korea on Thursday condemned ongoing Israeli air strikes on Iran as a “hideous act of aggression” and warned that it threatens world peace and also risks triggering a wider regional conflict.
In a statement quoted by the regime's top news agency, North Korea said Israel, backed by the United States and the West, is a “cancer-like” entity threatening peace in the Middle East (ME).
Meanwhile, the war between Iran and Israel entered its seventh day on Thursday.
A spokesperson at North Korea’s foreign ministry expressed serious concerns about Israel's ongoing attacks on Iran, as it risks a wider conflict.
He called the attack a challenge to Iran’s territorial security and integrity and also labelled the attack as an “unpardonable crime against humanity”.
“The present grave situation witnessed by the world clearly proves that Israel, supported and patronised by the US and the West, is a cancer-like entity for peace in the Middle East and a chief culprit of destroying global peace and security,” the Foreign Ministry spokesperson said.
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North Korea is a staunch supporter of the Iranian regime, having established ties since early 1973. The two nations have developed good cordial relations, exchanged military tech and also developed a ballistic missiles program.
North Korea, which maintains strong relations with Iran, China, and Russia and also with some of the other regional nations in the Middle East, along with South Asia in particular, might extend its military support or supply ballistic missiles or even air defence systems to Tehran in the wake of ongoing tumultuous events unfolding in the region.
North Korea’s remarks came amid the US president’s comments, who said that his patience has already “run out with Tehran”.
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said, Tehran’s actions are purely in self-defence, but the country “remains committed to diplomacy.”
“If the Americans decide to get involved militarily, we have no choice but to retaliate wherever we find the targets necessary to be acted upon,” Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht Ravanchi told reporters. “That is clear and simple. Because we are acting in self-defence,” he said.
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