“The NSS held an emergency meeting in video conferencing mode. The participants expressed serious concern about the ongoing short-range missile launches in North Korea since May this year, ”TASS quoted the agency as saying.

Council members discussed the situation, including security on the Korean Peninsula.

Earlier, the South Korean military said that the DPRK launched unidentified shells in the direction of the Sea of ​​Japan. In the US, they said they were monitoring the situation.