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North Korea officially confirmed the successful launch of satellite communications into orbit using a ballistic rocket. The news agency reported that North Korea has stabilized satellite in orbit after a successful launch.

The South Korean government said the missile was launched by North Korea on Sunday carrying a satellite.

Yonhap news agency quoted the South Korean government official in Seoul as saying: "the study of co-ordinates of the flight of the missile, we concluded that the missile launch a dedicated satellite was not a long-range missile."

For his part, U.S. President Barack Obama that the North Korean move is a violation of UN resolutions.

Obama said that "the launch of a Taepodong -2 today constitutes a clear violation of the UN Security Council resolution No. 1718, which is clearly prohibited on North Korea to engage in activities related to its ballistic missiles."

He said he would consult with allies in the region, including Japan and South Korea as well as members of the UN Security Council to transfer the case to the Board.

He also criticized Foreign Minister David Ritani strongly Maleband North Korea's firing and called for an end to all acts of ballistic missile-related activities.

But China, a staunch ally of North Korea on Sunday called for restraint after North Korean missile launch.

Japan and Russia

For its part, the Japanese government said that the missile had been through the atmosphere towards the Japanese Pacific without any parts of it fall on the Japanese territory. The government said through official Natgaha The first stage of the rocket landed in the Sea of Japan, while the second stage fell in the Pacific.

Tokyo described the North Korean move as "unfortunate" and called for an emergency session of the Security Council of the United Nations to discuss the subject.

The Russian Interfax news agency on the part of another radar system of the Russian air defense system, felt the process of North Korean missile launch on Sunday.

The agency quoted Sergei Rocha, Deputy Supreme Commander of the Air Defense Forces in the Far East, saying: "missile was fired at the sixth and 32 minutes Moscow time."

The Russian official also said that the Russian radar tracked the missile even disappeared from the monitors.

Security Council

The Mexican diplomat, representing the Chairman of the UN Security Council will hold a meeting on North Korea on Sunday.

The Tokyo and Washington have such a meeting after North Korea's firing of the missile, despite warnings from the international community.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon expressed regret in a statement to launch the missile, "in spite of calls determined by the international community."

Emergency meeting "

A spokesman for the South Korean government had earlier announced that the country's president has called an emergency meeting of the National Security Council (in the second hour after midnight GMT on Saturday, at eleven o'clock am local time) to discuss what it would involve such a step Pyongyang.

The Yonhap said earlier that North Korea began in the operation of radar and photographic equipment, installed in the vicinity of a rocket launch on the north-east coast.

The Yonhap quoted a South Korean official said the Korean authorities removed the cover from the rocket in preparation for the launch.

Widespread concern

The design of North Korea fired the missile, which it says is dedicated satellite for scientific purposes has raised widespread concern in the north-west Asia, particularly in South Korea and Japan.

Pyongyang had said it planned to launch in the period between the fourth and the eighth of this month.

The United States, Japan and South Korea have expressed the belief that the launching of the satellite account aims to "cover up the purpose of a fire, but the experience of an intercontinental ballistic missile could reach the U.S. coast."

U.S. President Barack Obama, said a North Korean missile launch is an act of "provocation", has forced the United States to take steps to "to inform North Korea that it can not threaten the security and integrity of other countries without regard."

The North Korean missile launch has been postponed on Saturday due to strong winds.