Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran is sharing nuclear technology with North Korea, as he described the two states "rogue".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran is sharing nuclear technology with North Korea, as he described the two states "rogue".

Netanyahu, who is in Japan this week for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, said Iran "would share whatever technology it acquired with North Korea," the Mainichi Shimbun daily reported in a front-page piece.

Asked if Pyongyang is receiving technologies linked to nuclear and missile development from Iran, Netanyahu said: "Yes, that's exactly the case."
Late Tuesday, during a meeting with Kishida, Netanyahu called both Iran and North Korea "rogue" states.

"We see a danger and a challenge posed by a rogue state arming itself with nuclear weapons. In your case it's North Korea," he said.

"We are faced with such a rogue state in the form of Iran and its quest to develop nuclear weapons," he said.

"Iran continues to deceive the world and advance its nuclear programme," he said, adding "Clearly the Ayatollahs cannot be trusted.”

"And if the international community wants to avoid the specter of nuclear terrorism, they must assure that Iran... not have the capability to develop nuclear weapons," he said.

Iran confirms its program is for peaceful ends only insisting that is its right under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) while Israel, which is believed to be the sole nuclear power in the Middle East with more than 200 nuclear heads, is not a signatory for this treaty.