Update at 17:00 KST: This story has been updated to include additional information on the launch from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and to add comments from an anonymous MOU official made this afternoon.

South Korea’s presidential office on Friday called on North Korea to cease regular projectile launches, warning that Pyongyang’s actions could serve to increase military tensions on the peninsula.

The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) earlier in the day reported the North had launched “two unidentified short-range projectiles” from near the east coast of the country. 

The two projectiles, fired in the vicinity of Tongchon, Kwangwon province