World / North Korea Iran Got N. Korean Missiles: WikiLeaks Could give country power to attack Europe By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff Posted Nov 29, 2010 8:32 AM CST Copied Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends the Caspian summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service) Iran has acquired 19 advanced missiles from North Korea—which could allow Tehran to attack Moscow and Western Europe, a Feb. 24 diplomatic cable posted by WikiLeaks shows. The North Korean BM-25 missiles could provide the “building blocks” for long-range missiles, the leak suggests—though the cable doesn’t offer “specific evidence,” Bloomberg reports. “North Korea and Iran have had a decades-long missile relationship and also most likely a nuclear relationship,” says an analyst. (More North Korea stories.) Report an error