Israel is attempting to muster global support against nuclear North Korea amid worldwide criticism of Tel Aviv's widely-reported possession of nuclear weapons.

On Monday, in yet another move to seemingly deflect criticism from its own atomic arsenal, Tel Aviv called for a crushing international response to the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea's (DPRK) latest nuclear test.

"Israel expects the international community to respond decisively to the nuclear detonation by North Korea," The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday quoting a foreign ministry statement.

The response was supposed "to transmit an unambiguous message to other countries," the statement added.

Earlier in the day, Pyongyang said it had conducted another test of a potent nuclear device "as part of measures to bolster its nuclear deterrent for self-defense."

News of three short-range missile test launches after the underground nuclear exercise sparked the outrage of the international community which has repeatedly censured North Korea's contempt for the United Nations' sanctions on its nuclear activities.

Amid the condemnations, however, analysts take the Israeli barrage against Pyongyang with a grain of salt given Tel Aviv's reputation as the sole possessor of scores of nuclear warheads in the Middle East according to former US president Jimmy Carter, aerial footage and decades of recurrent reporting.

The arsenal has made Tel Aviv a target of high-profile media attacks. Most recently, the Arab League Chief, Amr Mousa, warned that Israeli nukes posed "the real danger" in the Middle East.

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