Anadolu staff
23 June 2025•Update: 23 June 2025
ANKARA
North Korea on Monday strongly condemned US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites as a grave violation of a sovereign state's security interests and territorial rights, state media reported.
The US and Israel are the culprits of the current tensions in the Middle East born out of Tel Aviv's "ceaseless war moves and territorial expansion" accepted and encouraged by the West," the Korean Central News Agency reported, citing the Foreign Ministry.
"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea strongly denounces the attack on Iran by the US, which severely violated the UN Charter with respect for sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs as the basic principle and norms of other international laws and violently trampled down the territorial integrity and security interests of a sovereign state," a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement.
"The present situation of the Middle East, which is wholly shaking the basis of international peace and security, is an inevitable product brought by the reckless valor of Israel which has promoted its unilateral interests through ceaseless war moves and territorial expansion and by the Western-style free order that has tolerated and encouraged it," it said.
Israel and the US’s acts of further aggravating the tension in the Middle East and causing serious negative consequences to the global security structure by dint of physical strength under the pretext of so-called "peacekeeping" and "threat removal" are amplifying serious concerns, the statement said.
The just international community should raise the voice of unanimous censure and rejection against the US and Israel's confrontational acts, it added.
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that American forces bombed Iran’s Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites.
The attacks came as the latest escalation in a US-backed Israeli military assault on Iran since June 13, prompting Tehran to launch retaliatory attacks on Israel
*Writing by Aamir Latif
