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North Korea has announced its support for Iran\u2019s appointment of Mojtaba Khamenei<\/a> as the country\u2019s supreme leader and again denounced the \u201cillegal\u201d attack by the United States and Israel on Iran, state media reports.<\/p>\n The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday quoted a spokesperson from North Korea\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs as saying that Pyongyang respected the choice of Iran to select Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader, the son of late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli attack at the start of the war on 28 February.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n \u201cRegarding the recent official announcement that the Iranian Assembly of Experts has elected a new leader of the Islamic Revolution, we respect the right and choice of the Iranian people to elect their Supreme Leader,\u201d KCNA quoted the ministry spokesperson as saying.<\/p>\n \u201cWe express grave concern and strongly condemn the aggression of the United States and Israel, which, by launching an unlawful military attack against Iran, are undermining the foundations of regional peace and security and increasing instability in the international landscape,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n The spokesperson also condemned the attacks for undermining \u201cthe political system and territorial integrity of a country\u201d, which is unacceptable and \u201cmust be condemned and rejected by the entire world\u201d.<\/p>\n Following the launch of the US-Israel war on Iran 12 days ago, North Korea condemned what it branded \u201cgangster-like conduct\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n KCNA also reported on Wednesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un<\/a> had overseen another test-firing of strategic cruise missiles<\/a> from the country\u2019s latest and largest naval destroyer, Choe Hyon.<\/p>\n Kim spoke during the event about the important strategic task of \u201cmaintaining and expanding a powerful and reliable nuclear war deterrent\u201d, according to KCNA.<\/p>\n The launch of the missile from the Choe Hyon was the second missile test from the destroyer overseen by Kim, who last week lauded his country \u201carming the Navy with nuclear weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n The US has for decades led efforts to dismantle North Korea\u2019s nuclear programme, but has had little influence on Pyongyang, which has asserted that such weapons are required to prevent any threat of invasion by South Korea and its allies in Washington.<\/p>\n In recent months, the Trump administration indicated its willingness to revive high-level talks with North Korea, while Kim recently said that the two nations could \u201cget along\u201d if Washington accepted his country\u2019s status as a nuclear power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson hails appointment of Iran\u2019s new supreme leader and condemns the US and Israel\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[77,64,63,134,5812,14512,44,5808,92719,427,262188],"class_list":["post-532544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-military","tag-news","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-tv","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"North](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026-03-10T222427Z_405060958_RC2X1KAQT2WB_RTRMADP_3_NORTHKOREA-MISSILES-1773196416.jpg\")
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, observe a missile test launch conducted by the Choe Hyon naval destroyer at an unknown location in North Korea, on 10 March 2026 [Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via Reuters]<\/p>\n