North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed condolences to Iran over the death of the country’s president in a helicopter crash on Monday.

The front page of the North Korean party daily Rodong Sinmun on Tuesday carried Kim’s message of sympathy over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, addressing the message to Iran’s first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, now the acting president.

“I am deeply shocked by the news that Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has passed away unexpectedly,” the message starts, without mentioning the cause of his death.

Kim called Raisi an