The drills mark the second time in a month Pyongyang has carried out the exercises.
The last drill let to ah exchange of artillery fire between the two nations, after South Korea claimed rounds had landed in its territory.
The western sea border is disputed region between the countries.
Experts say that the drills being carried out by North Korea mark frustration after a failed push to win international aid.
The disputed western sea boundary was drawn without Pyongyang's consent at the close of the 1950-53 Korean War.
As the war ended with a truce, rather than a peace treaty, the peninsula is still technically in a state of war.
The drills come as South Korea is still dealing with the fallout from a ferry disaster which left 300 people, many of them schoolchildren, dead or missing.
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