SAN FRANCISCO – Russia’s missile attack warning system tracked several short-range missile launches recently conducted by the DPRK from its east coast into the Sea of Japan, according to a report on the Russian military news agency Interfax-AVN.

“We saw the launches. Soon we will see them even better,” the agency quoted a source in Russia’s Defense Ministry as saying in the report, which was translated by BBC Monitoring.

The comment referenced the construction of a new series of radar tracking stations currently being built by the Russian military, the report said.

The six launches were conducted over a three day