India, March 14 -- North Korea reportedly fired about 10 ballistic missiles toward the eastern sea of Japan on Saturday, staging its own show of force amid the US-Iran war in West Asia and its rival South Korea's joint military exercise with Washington.

According to Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the missiles were launched from the Sunan area in North Korea toward the East Sea at around 1:20 pm (local time).

North Korea's foreign ministry had released separate statements denouncing the joint US-Israeli attacks on Iran and expressing support for Tehran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei.

Now, Pyongyang has shown how far they have come in its own ballistic missile program.

The ballistic missile launches from North Korea came a...