NEW YORK (Kyodo) The U.N. Security Council planned to hold an emergency meeting on North Korea's rocket launch, the Japanese Permanent Mission to the United Nations said.

Japanese Ambassador to the U.N. Yukio Takasu asked the president of the Security Council to convene an emergency meeting following North Korea's rocket launch earlier in the day.

The meeting was to be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in New York, or 4 a.m. Monday Japan time, the permanent mission said.