North Korea has fired four short-range missiles into the sea off its west coast, the South Korean military says.
It called the launches an apparent reaction to the South's military manoeuvres with the United States.
The missiles with a range of 140 kilometres were launched close to the border with China into the Yellow Sea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Friday.
North Korea often launches missiles to protest US-South Korean military exercises, which it calls training for an invasion.
The day before the missile launches, its official Korean Central News Agency called US and South Korean soldiers "trigger-happy forces" who are aiming to occupy North Korea's coast.
"With no rhetoric can the US and the South Korean puppet war maniacs cover up the aggressive nature of the war exercises," it said.
The annual Foal Eagle manoeuvres began March 2 and are to finish April 24. The United States and South Korea said the exercises are to improve their cooperation and defensive capabilities to deter aggression from the North.
They also held the annual Key Resolve war games March 2-13.
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