UN Security council meets on N. Korea missile test

UNITED NATIONS, July 5 (Reuters) The UN Security Council met in closed session today to consider a response to a barrage of North Korean missile tests.

John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said going into the meeting that the 15-nation UN body would have before it a resolution drafted by Japan.

''This is obviously a very serious matter because of the North Korean provocation,'' he told reporters.

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