North Korea respects Iran's choice of a new supreme leader

North Korea respects Iran's choice of a new supreme leader, state media said Wednesday, accusing the US and Israel of undermining regional peace. 

Pyongyang, a longstanding US adversary, has previously condemned the US-Israeli attack on Iran an "illegal act of aggression". 

Defying US President Donald Trump's desire to have a say in who runs Iran, the Islamic republic on Sunday named Mojtaba Khamenei to replace his father,



longtime ruler Ali Khamenei, who died in an Israeli airstrike on February 28.

"We respect the rights and choice of the Iranian people to elect their supreme leader," Pyongyang's unnamed Foreign Ministry spokesperson was quoted as saying by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). 

The official went on to say the United States and Israel are "destroying the regional peace and security foundations and escalating instability worldwide".