This was reported by TASS with reference to a senior representative of the American administration.

“We continue to monitor the situation and are closely consulting with our South Korean and Japanese allies,” he said.

Earlier, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea said that the DPRK launched "unidentified shells" from its east coast.

Yevgeny Kim, a leading researcher at the Center for Korean Studies at the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the situation with the DPRK denuclearization in an interview with the NSN.