North Korea has condemned the ongoing United States and Israeli attack on Iran as an “illegal act of aggression”, claiming it had shown Washington’s “gangster-like” nature, AFP reports.

The military campaigns against Iran by the two states “constitute a thoroughly illegal act of aggression and the most vile form of violation of sovereignty in their nature”, a spokesperson for the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.

Pyongyang said the military actions showed the “shameless and gangster-like conduct” of the two allies, who it said had chosen to “abuse military force to fulfil their selfish and hegemonic ambitions”.

North Korea and the United States are longtime adversaries but Washington has mounted a push to revive high-level talks with Pyongyang in recent months, eyeing a potential summit between US President Donald Trump and the North’s Kim Jong Un this year.