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A top North Korean official has ruled out any possibility of talks with South Korea despite efforts from the new president of South Korea.

Some shit you should know before you read: If you’re unaware, South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung has taken a different approach to North Korea compared to his hardline predecessor, Yoon Suk-yeol. While Yoon used aggressive rhetoric and expanded military cooperation with the US, Lee has pushed for de-escalation and renewed dialogue. As part of his outreach, Lee halted anti-North propaganda loudspeaker broadcasts and banned activists from sending leaflet balloons across the border (moves aimed at getting North Korea to chill out). In a more significant shift, his administration is now considering scaling down the format of the upcoming Ulchi Freedom Shield joint military drills with the United States (annual drills that notoriously piss off Pyongyang, which views them as rehearsals for invasion).

What’s going on now: In a notable development, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a senior figure in the ruling Workers’ Party, rejected South Korea’s recent diplomatic efforts to better ties with the North. In a statement, she said that “whatever policy is adopted and whatever proposal is made in Seoul, we have no interest in it and there is neither a reason to meet nor an issue to be discussed.”

Kim Yo Jong was also critical of Lee’s continued support for the South Korea-US alliance, calling it evidence that he is “no different from his predecessor.” She dismissed the new administration’s gestures, saying they were merely “a reversible turning back of what they should not have done in the first place.”

Kim warned that “if [Seoul] expected that it could reverse all the results it had made with a few sentimental words, nothing could be a more serious miscalculation than that.”

Her remarks were North Korea’s first official response to newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s peace initiatives. There has been no official comment from South Korea’s president.