epa10531378 A Chinook helicopter carries a M777 howitzer during a field artillery battalion gun raid exercise as a part of the joint Freedom Shield (FS) exercise with South Korean soldiers at at Rodriguez Range in Pocheon, South Korea, 19 March 2023. The United States and South Korea kicked off a combined military exercise amid heightened tensions caused by North Korea's missile tests and hardening rhetoric against the allies. North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea's military said, in yet another provocation in apparent protest over an ongoing South Korea-US military exercise. EPA-EFE/Chung Sung-Jun / POOL