North Korea has fired a number of missiles once again.

The United States Navy and Marine Corps launch joint war games in the South China Sea amid heightened tensions with Beijing over a suspected Chinese “surveillance” balloon shot down by US fighter jets. 

North Korea says it responded to the South and the US's war games by exercising striking key enemy targets.

The situation in the Korean Peninsula has reached a dangerous level as North Korea has sent off record number of missiles, in reaction to the US war games with the South.

South Korea's troops, joined by some US forces, kicked off the annual Hoguk war games on Monday to ramp up their ability to counter North Korea's nuclear and missile tests.

The United States and South Korea have begun their first combined naval war games in five years near the peninsula a day after North Korea carried out another ballistic missile launch amid growing tensions.

A US aircraft carrier and warships from its strike group have arrived in South Korea for the first time in nearly five years to participate in joint war games in a show of force at North Korea.