North Korea fires multiple unidentified ballistic missiles
The event took place on the same day that Seoul and Washington launched their annual Freedom Shield joint military exercise.
A newsreel with archival footage of a North Korean missile test.
The South Korean military reported that North Korea launched multiple unidentified ballistic missiles on Monday, coinciding with the start of Seoul and Washington's annual Freedom Shield joint military exercise.
"Our military detected at 13H50 (04H50 GMT) multiple unidentified ballistic missiles fired from (North Korea's) Hwanghae province" into the Yellow Sea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement obtained by AFP.
It added that the military would enhance surveillance and maintain a state of full alert in close cooperation with the United Stat
Hours earlier, North Korea had criticized the joint South Korean-U.S. maneuvers, calling them a provocative act that could ignite a war with just one accidental shot.
"This is a dangerous provocative act in the acute situation on the Korean peninsula, which can trigger a physical conflict between the two sides with a single accidental shot," the North Korean Foreign Ministry said, quoted by state media.
According to U.S. Forces Korea, the annual exercise is defense-oriented and includes live, virtual, and field training involving alliance forces and government agencies.
"Key aspects of the training focus on conducting multi-domain operations leveraging component assets. Additionally, ROK and U.S. units will conduct several large-scale, live-fire training events to strengthen interoperability, reinforce our combined defense posture and increase combat readiness", U.S. forces explained in a statement.
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