India, March 10 -- North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward the Yellow Sea on Monday, a day after South Korea and the USA began their annual military drill, media reports said.

This is North Korea's first missile test conducted since Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20.

South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) told Yonhap news agency that it detected the launch from an area near the western county of Hwangju in North Hwanghae Province at around 1:50 p.m., noting that it may have involved close-range ballistic missiles (CRBMs).

Under the U.N. Security Council Resolutions, North Korea has been barred from staging any launch that uses ballistic missile technology.

The JCS said it has bolstered surveillance and maintaine...