The North Korean leader’s sister Kim Yo Jong denied that the country has taken down propaganda loudspeakers in response to the South’s goodwill gestures and said Pyongyang is instead focused on broader U.S. policy change, according to a statement released in state media on Thursday

The DPRK has “never dismantled the loudspeakers deployed along the border, nor do we intend to,” Kim said, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

The long statement reiterated DPRK leader Kim Jong Un’s position of seeking a unilateral U.S. policy change and ignoring South Korea as an avenue to diplomacy.

Though Kim Yo