North Korea fires a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, South Korea says

The militaries of South Korea and Japan said that North Korea launched a missile that flew over Japan.

A missile was fired into the Sea of Japan.

CNBC asked the White House and Pentagon if they had anything to say.

A meeting of the UN Security Council was convened to discuss North Korea's missile test. The U.N. does not allow North Korea to test weapons of mass destruction.

There’s an alarming change in the way that North Korea is approaching nuclear weapons, says Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

The missile traveled 2,800 miles and landed in the Pacific Ocean.

Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, called his counterparts in Japan and South Korea after the test. The missile test was condemned by the president in a phone call with the Japanese prime minister. The White House said in a statement that Biden talked about ways to limit North Korea's ability to support its weapons of mass destruction programs.

The first missile test over Japan in five years was answered with missiles from the US and South Korea. Four missiles were fired into the waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula, according to the Pentagon.

In the last 10 days, North Korea has launched five different missiles.

The latest one was particularly important. It flew over Japan and hit the ocean for the first time in a year. The Japanese ambassador to the UN said before the Security Council that it was terrifying to see a missile flying overhead.

He said that Japan condemns it in the strongest possible way.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, said the Biden administration would not stand by.

The United States is still committed to dialogue and diplomacy despite the lack of engagement from North Korea. She said that the United States would not stand by as North Korea threatened the United States.

The U.S. called a Security Council meeting and participated in military drills with South Korea.

The state conducted its most powerful nuclear test, launched its first-ever intercontinental missile, and threatened to send missiles into the waters near Guam.

More than 100 missiles and four nuclear weapons tests have been conducted by Kim since 2011.

Since the beginning of the year, North Korea has fired 39 missiles.