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Kim Yo-jong, vice director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, said in a speech on July 16 that North Korea had discovered 29 balloons carrying anti-North Korean items that were released by South Korea on the same day. North Korea issued a serious warning, saying that South Korea must be prepared to pay a price for this. South Korea must stop such behavior, otherwise North Korea's response will inevitably change.

According to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff on the 19th local time, the South Korean military continued to broadcast loudspeakers to North Korea in the North Korea-ROK border area that afternoon in response to North Korea's release of balloons containing pollutants into South Korea.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that morning that as of 9 a.m., the South Korean military had found more than 200 balloons carrying pollutants released by North Korea, of which more than 40 had fallen. After monitoring the release of balloons by North Korea, the South Korean military responded by broadcasting loudspeakers to North Korea in the border area between the evening of the 18th and the early morning of the 19th.