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.
North Korea's state television said a long-range rocket launch on Sunday, ordered by leader Kim Jong-Un to put a satellite into space, was a "complete success".
The announcer said the satellite, called 'Kwangmyongsong-4', is orbiting the earth every 94 minutes and the North would continue to launch satellites in future.
The rocket was fired from a launch pad on North Korea's west coast between 9.30am and 9.35am local time on a southern trajectory over the East China Sea.
Debris from the rocket crashed back to earth around 155 miles off the south-west coast of the Korean Peninsula around 14 minutes after take-off.
Meanwhile United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the launch and urged Pyongyang to "halt its provocative actions."
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