The North Korean leader’s sister denounced Seoul’s plan to send medical equipment to the North as an “insult” and a “provocation” on Thursday, after reports that the U.N. has granted a sanctions exemption for a shipment.

“This is an insult to our state, a mutated political provocation and a grave act of sovereignty infringement that goes against our state law,” Kim Yo Jong, director of Workers’ Party’s General Affairs Department, said in the statement carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). 

She said North Korea has the “absolute and unchanging position” that it has nothing to give, take or