Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited the move by North Korea Monday in a bid to drum up further support for issuing a “credible military threat” against Iran over its nuclear program.

Benjamin Netanyahu: “And the sanctions themselves, even tougher sanctions, will not stop them. Case in point, North Korea. Have sanctions, tough sanctions, stopped North Korea? No. And the fact that they produced a nuclear explosion reverberates everywhere in the Middle East, and especially in Iran. They say, 'Where is the world? Where is the international community? Where is the tough response?'”