Outsiders also saw a significant technological jump, with the test-fire apparently flying higher and for a longer time period than any other such previous missile.
Amid condemnation in Seoul, Tokyo, Washington and Moscow, a jubilant North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised more nuclear and missile tests and warned that his country's weapons could strike the US mainland and Pacific holdings.
Shen Dingli, a professor of global relations at Fudan University in Shanghai, says North Korea conducted the test to show its "determination to develop nuclear weapons and missiles remains unchanged".
A press statement issued by the council late Monday expresses "utmost concern" at what it calls North Korea's "highly destabilizing behavior" and demands that Pyongyang conduct no further nuclear or ballistic missile tests. The U.S. has failed to maintain diplomatic relations with North Korea - the Trump administration labeled former President Barack Obama's wait-and-see approach as a failed policy.
He added that the launch violates the Security Council resolution, and said that Guterres has called calls on North Korea to "ensure full compliance with its worldwide obligations". But it will take a lot more than a single, low-risk salvo against a Syrian military runway to convince Pyongyang that Washington is ready to risk nuclear war. It also vowed to fully implement the six sanctions resolutions previously adopted and urged all U.N. member nations to implement the measures "in an expeditious and serious manner".
"If the USA dares opt for a military provocation against the DPRK, we are ready to counter it", it said.
Citing a well-informed source, the TASS news agency reported that the meeting was requested by the United States and Japan.
Davis said China's opposition to the deployment is "perplexing".
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hailed the launch on Sunday as a test of the "perfect weapon system" and capable of carrying "a large-size heavy nuclear warhead".
The missile was launched at the highest angle so as not to affect the security of neighboring countries and flew 787 kilometers (490 miles) reaching an altitude of 2,111.5 kilometers (1,312 miles), KCNA said. "It went up so high and that gives you a sense that maybe the North Koreans achieved re-entry into the atmosphere".
Russian Federation has shown concern about Pyongyang's missiles, but it may also see North Korea as an opportunity to gain leverage with the West, the U.S. in particular, according to CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Matthew Chance.
North Korea has also launched satellites into orbit on long-range rockets that share some of the same technology as missiles.
"It's a challenging form of technology, and there's no indication yet in the public realm that North Korea has it", Martin Navias from the Center for Defense Studies at Kings College London told CNN. In February, Beijing banned imports of North Korean coal, its most important export.
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While China has no particular interest in seeing the expansion of North Korea's nuclear and missile program, it is far more anxious about a collapse of the regime in Pyongyang, which could trigger massive refugee flows into China and lead to the unification of the peninsula under the control of an USA -allied South Korea, than it is about an incremental increase in the North Korean nuclear threat to the U.S.
"If the United States awkwardly attempts to provoke the DPRK, it will not escape from the biggest disaster in the history, Kim said, strongly warning the U.S. should not to disregard or misjudge the reality that its mainland and Pacific operation region are in the DPRK's sighting range for strike and that it has all powerful means for retaliatory strike".
North Korean state media claimed that Sunday's test proved that the country could launch a missile with a nuclear tip.
But he added: "We must stop intimidating North Korea and find a peaceful solution to this problem".
The North's leader, Kim, has said it was in final stages of developing an ICBM.
In Seoul, some citizens expressed frustration.
In a stunning threat to Donald Trump, warmongering Kim Jong-un claimed the projectile can carry a nuclear warhead to mainland USA, according to state media. On Monday, South Korea's unification ministry warned North Korea to not miscalculate the situation.
US President Donald Trump called for tougher sanctions against Pyongyang.
"And so what we're going to do is continue to tighten the screws", she said.
North Korea launched a ballistic missile early on Sunday in what was seen as a challenge to South Korea's new President Moon Jae-In, a liberal who has said he wants to ease tensions with the North.
"There are a lot of very significant security problems set across the world, all of them would get easier, right, if Russian Federation were to come to the conclusion that it would best advance its interests through cooperating with the United States and others to resolve those conflicts rather than perpetuate them", said H.R. McMaster, the White House national security adviser.
The launch came as troops from the U.S., Japan and two European nations gather near Guam for drills that are partly a message to North Korea.
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