The United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test on Monday. The council called the test a "clear violation" of a resolution passed in 2006 after Pyongyang's first atomic weapons test.
Israel was among the many countries reacting with concern Monday to North Korea's second nuclear weapons test. The underground test, conducted Monday, involved a bomb that Russian officials described as equivalent in destructive power to those used by the United States in World War II. North Korea also tested short-range ground-to-air missiles .
"Israel views the second North Korean nuclear test with extreme gravity, and is party to the global concern caused by this event,” the Foreign Ministry said Monday in response to the tests. “Furthermore, Israel is concerned with North Korea's nuclear proliferation, which has negative implications in this region.”