The launch is the first since a new liberal president took office in South Korea on Wednesday, saying dialog as well as pressure must be used to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and stop the North's weapons pursuit.
The missile launch was detected at approximately 10:30 a.m. Hawaii time, and landed in the Sea of Japan, a U.S. PACOM spokesperson said in a statement.
"It will be only a laughing stock of the worldwide community that with hysteria about sanctions, the US has mistaken even ordinary restaurants run by the DPRK overseas for nuke or ballistic rocket manufacturers", the statement said.
That's a little less than the distance between North Korea and the U.S. Pacific island of Guam.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the missile presumably flew for 30 minutes not reaching the Japanese exclusive economic zone.
Moon immediately convened an emergency meeting of his national security council to discuss the launch.
The apparent missile test comes after several missile tests this year.
In an interview in April with Reuters, President Trump warned that a "major, major conflict" with North Korea was possible, but said he would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the issue of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.
The two most recent launches last month were deemed to have failed, as they exploded within seconds.
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China's foreign ministry has expressed opposition to North Korea's test-launch of a ballistic missile and called on all sides to exercise restraint.
In Norway, Choi met with former USA officials and scholars for what are known as "track 2" talks.
David Wright, co-director of the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said that the missile could have a range of 4,500 kilometers (about 2,800 miles) if flown on a standard, instead of a lofted, trajectory - considerably longer than Pyongyang's current missiles.
The president also told Bloomberg News recently that he would meet North Korean president Kim Jong Un "under the right circumstances".
Although there are still plenty of technical hurdles to be overcome, many analysts believe North Korea will eventually achieve Kim's stated goal of developing an ICBM that can reach the mainland United States. "The president said we are leaving open the possibility of dialogue with North Korea, but we should sternly deal with a provocation to prevent North Korea from miscalculating".
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters Sunday that the launch, which is banned by the United Nations, is "absolutely unacceptable" and that Japan will respond resolutely.
Japan also lodged protest to North Korea over the missile launch through the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. The Trump administration has called North Korean ballistic and nuclear efforts unacceptable and has swung between threats of military action and offers to talk as it formulates a policy.
Choe Son-hui, director-general of the North America affairs bureau of the North Korean foreign ministry, told reporters at the Beijing Capital International Airport that North Korea "will hold dialogue under right conditions" with the new USA administration.
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