North Korea launched several ballistic missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Monday afternoon, Seoul's military said, on the first day of a large-scale joint U.S-South Korea military exercise on the Peninsula.

The exercises began after the South Korean and U.S. militaries paused live-fire training while Seoul investigates how two of its fighter jets mistakenly bombed a civilian area during a warm-up drill last week.

North Korea has launched several ballistic missiles off the country's west coast. Pyongyang shows no signs of abandoning missile tests after Donald Trump's return to power, reports Bloomberg. According to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff,