BEIJING, July 2 -- A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Wednesday urged joint efforts to safeguard peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula after Seoul said Pyongyang fired two short-range projectiles.

Hong Lei said at a daily press briefing that China hopes relevant sides will do more to ease tensions on the peninsula.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two short-range projectiles into its east waters on Wednesday, a day after the Republic of Korea (ROK) refused a DPRK proposal to stop all military hostilities, a ROK Defense Ministry official said.