BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Russia is deeply concerned with reports of the DPRK’s latest missile tests. He expressed Russia’s hopes that a meeting of intermediaries on the DPRK nuclear issue will be held in the near future.

He also pointed out that the situation had become calmer and that tendency would help provide conditions for the resumption of the six-party talks. Lavrov also said if Pyongyang had recently tested short-range missiles which were not ballistic, this was not formally banned by the UN Security Council.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said the DPRK fired two more projectiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday. The DPRK fired three projectiles into waters off its east coast on Saturday and a fourth on Sunday. Pyongyang described the launches as a "regular military exercise."

(Source: CNTV.cn)