North Korea has launched a long-range rocket which it claims is carrying 'a satellite'.
The launch was made in defiance of United Nations sanctions barring Pyongyang from using ballistic missile technology.
The US strongly condemned the event as a "destabilising and provocative action".
An emergency meeting of UN Security Council members is to be held to agree a collective response.
The Foreign Office has "strongly" condemned North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket thought to have been a test of its ballistic missile technology.
North Korea, which says its rocket programme is aimed at launching satellites, fired the rocket from its missile base on the west coast on Sunday
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