UN Security Council to meet on North Korea missile test on Friday

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The United Nations Security Council will meet at 3 p.
ET on Friday on the latest North Korea missile test, diplomats said, at the request of the United States and Japan.
North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan`s northern Hokkaido far out into the Pacific Ocean on Friday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, further ratcheting up tensions after Pyongyang`s recent test of its most powerful nuclear bomb.
The 15-member Security Council unanimously stepped up sanctions against North Korea on Monday over its September 3 nuclear test, imposing a ban on the country`s textile exports and capping imports of crude oil.
It was the ninth UN sanctions resolution adopted on North Korea since 2006.