North Korea's latest rocket launches are a symbolic display of disapproval of military cooperation between South Korea, the U.S., and other allies in Asia.

North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles into its western waters on Monday, hours after South Korea and the United States commenced their largest annual military exercises. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile launches originated from the North's southwestern Hwanghae province and landed in the Yellow Sea west of the Korean Peninsula.

A U.S. aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea in a show of force, days after North Korea test-launched cruise missiles to demonstrate its counterattack capabilities.

Last week's accidental shelling of a South Korean village occurred less than 20 miles from the border of the nuclear-armed North.

North Korea condemned an ongoing U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise Wednesday, saying another incident like Seoul's recent accidental bombing of its own village near the DMZ could lead to "a new armed conflict.

North Korea has issued a sharp rebuke over the major military exercise being carried out by the U.S. and its South Korean ally, labeling the training a "war rehearsal." Newsweek reached out to the Pentagon and the South Korean embassy in the U.

North Korea denounced joint military drills between the US and South Korea saying the South Korean Air Force’s recent bombing mistake shows the risk of the region unintentionally getting dragged into a new armed conflict.