North Korea from its capital city Pyongyang has fired an unidentified missile that landed in the sea after passing over Japan. North Korea till now in this year has done many tests and it was the 15th missile test by North Korea.

The missile blasted off from near the Sunan International Airport north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and flew about 2,300 miles, flying over northern Japan, The New York Times quoted South Korean military as saying.

The launch comes a day after Pyongyang threatened to sink Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a UN Security Council resolution (UNSC) imposing new sanctions against it for its 3 September nuclear test.

The UNSC on Monday unanimously adopted new sanctions on North Korea for conducting its sixth and largest nuclear test on September 3.

North Korea previously launched a ballistic missile from Sunan on 29 August which flew over Japan's Hokkaido island and landed in the Pacific waters.

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