They should do more to find effective ways to resume dialogue and negotiation.” 3.03am: North Korea celebrate 'successful missile test' and promise 'military equilibrium' with US Kim Jong-un’s goal is to reach an "equilibrium" of military force with the US a day after its leader Kim Jong-un ordered the test of a medium-to-long range missile to fly over Japan. The US said on Friday it had military options to deal with North Korea, signalling that Donald Trump’s patience is beginning to wear thin after Pyongyang fired a missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean for the second time in under a month. While strongly condemning North Korea's actions, Moscow and Beijing continue to insist on the implementation of the so-called "double-freeze" proposal, which calls for Pyongyang to suspend its nuclear and ballistic missile tests in exchange for a halt to joint US-South Korea military drills.Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are rapidly mounting with North Korea defiantly continuing its missile and nuclear tests and the US, South Korean and Japanese militaries regularly holding drills in the region, accompanied by strong rhetoric by Washington. The statement called on member states to fully implement Security Council resolutions and expressed a “commitment to a peaceful, diplomatic and political solution to the situation.”

 “The Security Council had brief consultations and it has agreed on a press statement … in which the council condemned the highly provocative launch of a ballistic missile by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Tekeda Alemu, Ethiopia’s U.N. ambassador and current president of the Security Council, told reporters after the emergency meeting, requested by Japan, the U.S. and South Korea.
A North Korean missile flies over Hokkaido, Japan, triggering the J-Alert system, following a similar event on 29 August.