North Korea fires missiles as US, South Korea begin their 1st joint military exercise of Trump's 2nd term

North Korea fired respective ballistic missiles into the oversea connected Monday, conscionable hours aft South Korea and the United States kicked disconnected their archetypal large associated subject workout of President Donald Trump’s 2nd term. 

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the rocket firings were detected from the North’s southwestern Hwanghae Province. The weapons were described arsenic close-range, and successful response, South Korea's subject said it has bolstered its surveillance posture and is intimately coordinating with the U.S. 

"We are alert of the DPRK’s aggregate ballistic rocket launches and are consulting intimately with the Republic of Korea and Japan, arsenic good arsenic different determination allies and partners. The United States condemns these actions and calls connected the DPRK to refrain from further unlawful and destabilizing acts," the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said successful a statement. "While we person assessed that this lawsuit does not airs an contiguous menace to U.S. personnel, oregon territory, oregon to our allies, we proceed to show the situation. The U.S. commitments to the defence of the ROK and Japan stay ironclad."

The launches travel aft South Korean and U.S. forces began their yearly Freedom Shield workout Monday.  

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A rocket flies during what North Korean authorities media said was a trial of a caller intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic rocket astatine an undisclosed determination connected Jan. 6. (Reuters/KCNA)

"Freedom Shield is an 11-day workout conducted by the Republic of Korea and the United States consisting of grooming to bespeak the Korea Theater of Operations – a combined, joint, multi-domain, and interagency operating environment," according to the U.S. Army.  

"Field grooming events passim FS25 see municipality combat operations, tract infirmary operations, wide casualty attraction and evacuation, tract artillery exercises, aerial battle training, bedewed spread crossing, aerial defence artillery plus deployment and validation, and a associated battle workout with the U.S. Marine Corps," the Army added. 

However, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry is calling the exercises an "aggressive and confrontational warfare rehearsal." 

"Despite of the DPRK's repeated warning, the US and the Republic of Korea are dormant acceptable connected staging the large-scale associated subject exercises. This is simply a unsafe provocative enactment of driving the acute concern connected the Korean peninsula, wherever a azygous accidental weapon study whitethorn spark disconnected a carnal struggle betwixt the 2 sides, beyond the utmost limit," work a connection published successful North Korean authorities media. 

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U.S. Army soldiers hole to transverse the Hantan River astatine a grooming tract successful Yeoncheon, South Korea, adjacent the borderline with North Korea connected Monday, March 10. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

This year's grooming comes aft South Korean KF-16 combatant jets accidentally dropped bombs connected a civilian country during a live-fire grooming workout with the U.S. connected Thursday, injuring aggregate radical and damaging aggregate buildings, including 3 houses and a Catholic church. 

South Korean media reported that the mishap happened successful Pocheon, a metropolis adjacent the heavy equipped borderline with North Korea. About 30 radical were wounded, 2 of them seriously. 

The archetypal appraisal from the South Korean aerial unit was that 1 of the KF-16 pilots entered the incorrect coordinates and failed to visually verify the people earlier proceeding with the bombing. The 2nd aviator had the close coordinates but focused lone connected maintaining formation enactment and dropped the bombs connected the archetypal pilot’s instructions without recognizing the people was wrong, according to the contented of the latest briefing provided to The Associated Press. 

People ticker a tv surface showing a quality broadcast with record footage of a North Korean rocket trial astatine a bid presumption successful Seoul connected March 10, 2025. North Korea fired "multiple unidentified ballistic missiles" connected March 10, South Korea's subject said, the aforesaid time Seoul and Washington began a large yearly associated subject drill known arsenic Freedom Shield.  (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images)

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Gen. Lee Youngsu, main of unit of the South Korean aerial force, bowed and apologized Monday implicit the injuries and spot harm caused by the bombing, which helium said "should person ne'er happened and indispensable ne'er hap again." 

Fox News’ Bradford Betz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.