North Korea Launches Missiles in Protest of US-South Korea Drills

North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles towards its eastern waters.
The launches were in protest of South Korean-U.S. live-fire drills that North Korea viewed as an invasion rehearsal.
The missiles traveled about 780 kilometers before landing in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. agreed to continue efforts to get North Korea to halt weapons activities and return to talks.
North Korea has test-fired about 100 missiles since the start of 2022, and tensions have risen in past months as the pace of both North Korean weapons tests and U.S.-South Korea military exercises has increased in tit-for-tat actions.