UNITED NATIONS, United States: The UN Security Council met for two hours on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) to discuss North Korea’s test-firing of a missile from a submarine toward Japan and agreed to consider a statement condemning the launch.

“There was a general sense of condemnation by most members of the council and therefore we will have to see how we would then be phrasing the press statement,” said Malaysia’s Ambassador Ramlan bin Ibrahim, who holds this month’s council presidency.

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