North Korea fires several ballistic missiles after US, South Korea military drills South Korea's military says North Korea has fired several ballistic missiles into the sea
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their big annual combined drills, which the North views as a clash rehearsal.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch contingency this year, were detected from the North’s southwestern Hwanghae province be that as it may gave no further details such as how far they flew. It disclosed South Korea bolstered its surveillance posture and is closely coordinating with the United States.
Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.S. militaries commenced their annual Freedom Shield command post exercise, their foremost major incorporated training of President Donald Trump's second term. The allies have already been engaging in varied field training exercises in interdependence with the Freedom Shield training.
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry cautioned Monday the Freedom Shield training risks triggering “physical conflict” on the Korean Peninsula. It summoned the training a “aggressive and confrontational war rehearsal" and reiterated leader Kim Jong Un’s reported scores for a “radical growth” of his nuclear amplitude to counter what he claims as growing threats posed by the U.S. and its Asian allies.
This year's training came after the South Korean and U.S. militaries paused live-fire training while Seoul investigates how its fighter jets mistakenly bombed a civilian area during a warm-up drill concluding week.
About 30 people were injured, two of them unequivocally, when two South Korean KF-16 fighter jets mistakenly fired eight MK-82 bombs on a civilian area in Pocheon, a town near the North Korean border, on Thursday. The bombing happened while South Korean and U.S. forces were engaging in a live-fire drill ahead of the Freedom Shield exercise.
The inceptive assessment from the South Korean air measure was that one of the KF-16 pilots entered the wrong orders and failed to visually confirm the target before proceeding with the bombing. The second pilot had the correct orders taking one thing with another focused only on maintaining flight formation and dropped the bombs on the leading pilot’s instructions with recognizing the target was wrong, according to the content of the latest briefing provided to The Associated Press.
Gen. Lee Youngsu, chief of staff of the South Korean air mass, bowed and apologized Monday over the injuries and property damage caused by the bombing, which he stated “should have never occurred and must never occur again.”
Both the South Korean and U.S. militaries have halted all live-fire exercises in South Korea following the mistake. South Korean military officials disclose live-fire training will resume after they complete the investigation of the bombing and modality preventative steps.
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Published 3/11/2025