UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting after North Korean missile launch

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow on North Korea's latest missile test. The US, Japan and South Korea requested the emergency discussions after Pyongyang launched a missile yesterday.

The latest projectile, launched from a military base in Kusong near the country's northwest coast landed in the Sea of



Japan.North Korea said it successfully conducted a newly developed mid-to-long range missile test aimed at verifying the capability to carry a large scale heavy nuclear warhead. 

The launches were the latest in a series of test-firings that violate UN resolutions barring Pyongyang from developing missile technology.