North Korea slams Netanyahu claims

The North Korean foreign ministry slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he accused Pyongyang of sharing nuclear technology with Tehran, public broadcaster KBS reported on Saturday.

During a visit to Japan this week, Netanyahu told a Japanese paper that Iran "would share whatever technology it acquired with North Korea."

Asked if Pyongyang is receiving technologies linked to nuclear and missile development from Iran, Netanyahu said: "Yes, that's exactly the case."

A spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry said the Zionist regime’s prime minister's statement was a "shallow trick to continue expansionist ambitions in the Middle Eastern region."

The spokesman called Zionist regime a "cancer to peace in the Middle East," accusing Netanyahu of "trying to divert international criticism of Israel caused by its settlement activity and breakdown in the Middle East peace talks."

Zionist regime, the spokesman noted, "must shed its bad habit of picking on others when it is driven to the corner and must respond to international demands to achieve peace and denuclearization in the Middle East."