North Korea Fires Missiles as US and South Korea Kick Off Joint Military Drills

Pyongyang called the war games a ‘dangerous provocative act’ which may ’spark off a physical conflict.’

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on Jan. 14, 2025. Jung Yeon-JeAFP via Getty Images

North Korea has fired multiple missiles off its west coast, as the United States and South Korea kicked off annual joint military drills, according to Seoul’s military.

The missiles, fired from North Korea’s western region toward the Yellow Sea, were believed to be close-range ballistic missiles, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said on March 10.