Trump talks regime change as Iran vows retaliation for U.S. bombing

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North Korea “strongly” condemned the U.S. attack on Iran, one of its only allies, calling it a violation of sovereignty.

The attack “violently trampled down the territorial integrity and security interests of a sovereign state,” a spokesperson for the North Korean foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

The spokesperson said the instability in the Middle East was caused by 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.”

The international community “should raise the voice of unanimous censure and rejection against the U.S. and Israel’s confrontational acts,” the spokesperson said.

The comments from North Korea, which is also under international sanctions over its nuclear program but is believed to be much further along than Iran, did not mention Trump and were not a formal statement, said Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, South Korea.

“It could be that North Korea deliberately chose the measured tone so as to be careful not to draw any comparisons between Iran and North Korea and preemptively block narratives that suggest North Korea could be the next target,” Yang said.

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