The United Nations Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting at the request of the United States and Japan to discuss North Korea's latest missile launch, diplomats said.
North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about toward Japan, an indication of improving technological capability for the isolated North Asian country that has conducted a series of missile launches in defiance of UN sanctions.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon found the launch "deeply troubling," and urged North Korea to de-escalate the situation and return to talks on denuclearisation, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
The Security Council was unable to condemn the launch of a missile by North Korea earlier this month that landed near Japan because China wanted the statement to also oppose the planned deployment of a US anti-missile defence system in South Korea.
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