A new survey finds that 57 percent of the American public supports military measures in the event North Korea launches a long-range missile.

According to the survey on one-thousand U.S. citizens by U.S. pollster Rasmussen, 57 percent supported military measures while 15 percent said the opposite. The telephone survey was conducted before the North launched a rocket on Sunday.

By party affiliation, 66 percent of republicans and 52 percent of democrats were in favor of military action.

As a way to halt North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, only 27 percent of respondents said the U.S. should help the North’s efforts to rebuild its economy while 51 percent said all economic aid to the communist state should be cut.

Meanwhile, Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun said its own survey found that 78 percent of Japanese people believe Tokyo should seek sanctions against North Korea for launching a rocket.