U.N. Security Council to meet on North Korea missile launch

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council will meet on Friday to discuss North Korea's ballistic missile launch, diplomats said, as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Pyongyang to "halt these inflammatory and escalatory actions." North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile which flew about 800 km (500 miles) before hitting the sea, South Korea's military said on Friday, as the isolated state stepped up its defiance of tough new U.N. and U.S