{"id":109166,"date":"2025-03-10T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/north-korea-test-fires-multiple-ballistic-missiles-as-us-south-korea-war-games-begin\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:03:44","slug":"north-korea-test-fires-multiple-ballistic-missiles-as-us-south-korea-war-games-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/north-korea-test-fires-multiple-ballistic-missiles-as-us-south-korea-war-games-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea test-fires ‘multiple’ ballistic missiles as US-South Korea war games begin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(SEOUL and LONDON) — North Korea fired “multiple” ballistic missiles on Monday, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, as U.S.-South Korea war games began nearby.<\/p>\n

The missiles, which were “unidentified,” were fired from the North’s Hwanghae Province at about 1:50 p.m. local time, the South Korean military said. They were aimed inland, toward the West Sea.<\/p>\n

The South Korean military “has increased surveillance and maintaining readiness posture in close cooperation with the U.S.,” the Joint Chiefs said.<\/p>\n

The annual U.S.-South Korea joint exercises, which are known as “Freedom Shield,” were scheduled to begin Monday and run through March 21, according to the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n

The training alongside South Korean soldiers will include urban combat, field hospital operations, field artillery exercises, air assault training and air defenses, the Army said in a statement on Monday. The U.S. Marine Corps is also expected to take part in a joint assault exercise.<\/p>\n

North Korea’s Foreign Ministry described the planned exercises as “aggressive,” with officials telling state media on Sunday that the “U.S. random exercise of strength will result in aggravated security crisis.”<\/p>\n

“This is a dangerous provocative act of leading the acute situation on the Korean peninsula, which may spark off a physical conflict between the two sides by means of an accidental single shot, to the extreme point,” the ministry said in a statement to the Korean Central New Agency on Sunday.<\/p>\n

ABC News’ Somayeh Malekian contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n

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