'All options on table': Trump warns North Korea

United States President Donald Trump has warned North Korea that "all options are on the table" after Pyongyang escalated tensions by firing a ballistic missile that passed over Japan.

"The world has received North Korea's latest message loud and clear: this regime has signalled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behaviour," Trump said in a statement.

"Threatening and destabilising actions only increase the North Korean regime's isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table," he added.

North Korea on Tuesday launched ballistic missile which reportedly passed over Japan and broke into three pieces and fell1,180 kilometers from Cape Erimo into the waters off Hokkaido.

In the wake of recovery of remains of the parts of missiles, the Japanese Government warned the people in northern Japan to prepare for a potential incoming missile from Pyongyang.

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday called the launch of ballistic missile by North Korea as "an unprecedented, grave and serious threat" that damages the peace and security of the region.

Abe added that Tokyo had lodged a firm protest with Pyongyang on the same and added that the government would take "full steps" to ensure the safety of it nationals.

Meanwhile, Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono said that the government is requesting the United Nation to convene a United Nations Security Council meeting on the same.

According to local media reports, Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, on Tuesday said the U.S., Japan and South Korea have called for an emergency meeting of the organization's Security Council.

Haley said "something serious has to happen," adding, "enough is enough."

Trump also spoke with Abe to address North Korea's launch of a missile that overflew Japanese territory.

The two leaders agreed that North Korea poses a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, as well as to countries around the world.

President Trump and Prime Minister Abe committed to increasing pressure on North Korea, and doing their utmost to convince the international community to do the same.