Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea has dismissed 25 short-range rockets from a easterly seashore into open water, in what appears to be a “provocative” action, a South Korean Ministry of National Defense orator pronounced Sunday.

“We weigh it as a banishment proof in response to a corner cavalcade between South Korea and a U.S. We are now additionally examining a intention,” pronounced orator Kim Min-Seok, warning, “North Korea should hindrance any actions that can stir troops tragedy and emanate worry to a adjacent countries.”

South Korean officials pronounced progressing that a North had dismissed usually 10 rockets.

The rockets seem to be FROGs, that stands for “Free Rockets Over Ground.” They were grown in a Soviet Union before a appearance of missiles, Kim said.

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“It does not have a superintendence complement and is (a) free-fall system. North Korea had grown it in a ’60s,” a orator said.

Earlier Sunday, South Korea pronounced a rockets seemed to transport about 70 kilometers into a Sea of Japan, according to invulnerability officials who asked not to be identified by name as a matter of confidence protocol.

Such actions have drawn critique from South Korea and a West.

The U.S. State Department pronounced it’s wakeful of a reports of rocket launches by North Korea and is closely monitoring a situation.

“We once again call on North Korea to refrain from provocative actions that irritate tensions,” State Department mouthpiece Jen Psaki said.

But North Korea has shielded a array of short-range launches it has carried out in new weeks.

“It is pardonable self-defense function for us to control these troops exercises in sequence to reserve assent in a segment and to strengthen a reserve of a people and a country,” a supervision said, according to state-run media.