Admiral Mullen: U.S. Will Not Accept North Korea-Iran Relationship

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Wednesday that the U.S. will not accept partnerships between rogue nations, including a suspected link between Iran and North Korea revealed this week in the latest round of WikiLeaks’ releases.

“These kinds of isolated relationships that fund terrorism, that fund weapons … [are] not an accepted norm, nor will it be in the future,” Admiral Mike Mullen said during a discussion at the Washington-based Center for American Progress.

According to one of the documents published this week by the whistleblower site, North Korea may have supplied Iran with 19 missiles.

During his remarks, Mullen called upon China to “step up” against North Korea, both in regards to the possible Iran connection and the secretive nation’s belligerence against South Korea.