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The action is a demonstration of "the capability and readiness to carry out precision strike" against the source of North Korea`s missile launches or the command and support centres, South Korea`s Yonhap news agency cited the South Korean military as saying.

The Kremlin said on Friday that North Korea`s latest missile test was part of a series of unacceptable provocations and that the United Nations Security Council was united in believing such launches should not be taking place.

Britain said on Friday the world would stand together against North Korea after the country fired a missile that flew over Japan into the Pacific Ocean, ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang`s test of a powerful nuclear bomb.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that military action against North Korea was not a first choice.

The US military conducted a test on Wednesday of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile, officials said, just days after North Korea conducted its own ICBM launch.

On Friday, North Korea test-fired a missile, which the country described as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) called Hwasong-14, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).  

US President Donald Trump vowed to take "all necessary steps to ensure the security of the American homeland and protect our allies in the region."

With this, India has achieved a significant milestone in the direction of developing a two-layered Ballistic Missile Defence system.

North Korea on Thursday conducted what was believed to be another failed test of a powerful medium-range missile capable of hitting US bases as far away as Guam, the South Korean military said.

Foreign ministers from Japan, China and South Korea held their first talks in more than a year Wednesday just hours after North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine towards Japan.

The Security Council unanimously backed a US-drafted statement that demanded North Korea "refrain from further actions, including nuclear tests," which are in violation of UN resolutions.

A senior North Korean official arrived in Beijing on Tuesday for talks between his country and China, whose ties are formally close but have eroded recently because of the North’s nuclear weapons programme.

UN resolutions ban North Korea from any use of ballistic missile technology, although it regularly fires short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast.

A North Korean launch of a missile on the birthday of its revered founder appears to have failed.

Britain, France, Germany and the United States had asked a UN Security Council sanctions committee to investigate the launch of the Emad missile on October 10.