It is connected with a new launch of the ballistic missile of the DPRK. According to Sebastiano Cardi, the permanent representative of Italy to the UN, who is the acting chairman of the Security Council in November, the initiators of today's meeting are the United States, Japan and South Korea.

It is assumed that the US and Japan will seek even more stringent measures against the DPRK.

In turn, the US Permanent Mission to the United Nations on its Twitter page reported that the meeting will be held in an open format around midnight Kyiv time.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, on the night of November 29, North Korea launched a ballistic missile that flew a thousand kilometers fell in the exclusive economic zone of Japan.

In response to the actions of the DPRK, South Korea conducted its own missile tests.