UN Security Council calls for emergency meeting after North Korea launches missile over Japan

A North Korean Hwasong-12 missile is paraded in North Korea on April 15, 2017. [AP Photos]

The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting today to discuss North Korea's test firing of a ballistic missile over Japan.

The open meeting was requested by the United States. "We must limit the DPRK's ability to advance its unlawful ballistic missile and weapons of mass destruction programs," Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, tweeted.