North Korea floated trash balloons toward the South on Saturday evening, the first launch since Seoul warned that any DPRK action that “inflicts harm” on South Koreans will “spell the end of the regime.”

Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced on Saturday that it had detected the launch of “suspected garbage balloons.”

“Given the current wind direction, there is a possibility that the suspected propaganda balloons could drift toward the Gyeonggi and Gangwon regions,” it said, repeating the usual warnings to beware of falling objects and report debris to authorities.

JCS later confirmed that North Korea had launched approximately