TOKYO (Sputnik) — According to the Yonhap news agency, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Barack Obama have reached the agreement through a series of bilateral and trilateral phone calls held earlier on Tuesday.
On Sunday, North Korea fired a long-range rocket to allegedly place a satellite into orbit, defying a UN Security Council resolution which bans Pyongyang from launching rockets that could be used as ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads and evoking condemnation from the international community.
Later on Sunday, the UN Security Council held an emergency session and called for a response to Pyongyang's launch. Although North Korea said the launch was for scientific purposes, some states saw it as a front for a ballistic missile test.
