North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, alongside his daughter, oversaw a live-fire test of rocket launch systems, likely in response to U.S.-South Korean military drills, which North Korea views as invasion preparations.

The United States has begun a large military exercise with South Korea involving thousands of troops while also waging an escalating war in the Middle East.

U.S. and South Korean forces will proceed with the major joint military exercise despite U.S. involvement in the conflict with Iran, two generals said.

Demonstrating their combined strength and readiness, the U.S. Eighth Army and the Republic of Korea Army executed a dynamic river-crossing exercise on

Kim Yo Jong warned Tuesday that the ongoing U.S.-South Korea Freedom Shield joint military exercise could lead to "unimaginably terrible consequences."

Mentioning the country’s expanding nuclear programme, Kim Yo-jong said North Korea will continue to bolster its “destructive power” against what it sees as external threats and “constantly and repeatedly convince the enemies of our war deterrence and its fatality”.