N Korea fires missile from Pyongyang towards the east -S.Korea

The South Korean and US militaries were investigating subtle elements of the dispatch, the South's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. 

The rocket has flown over Japan, Japan's NHK TV said. South Korea's presidential Blue House has called an earnest National Security Council meeting. 

The North's dispatch comes a day after the North undermined to sink Japan and lessen the United States to "fiery debris and obscurity" for supporting a U. N. Security Council determination forcing new authorizes against it for its Sept. 3 atomic test. 

The North beforehand propelled a ballistic rocket from Sunan on Aug. 29 which flew over Japan's Hokkaido island and arrived in the Pacific waters.