IRAN-NORTH KOREA-DIPLOMACY

Iran’s new President Hassan Rowhani (R) shakes hands with North Korea’s ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong-Nam, on his first official day in office in Tehran on August 3, 2013. Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani assumed Iran’s presidency promising to work to lift punishing international sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic over its controversial nuclear programme. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

Kim Yong-nam (L), president of the Presidium of the North Korean Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), meets Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on August 3, 2013.