Will South Korea’s New ‘Unification Doctrine’ Succeed Where Past Polices Have Failed

South Korea's only official policy regarding unification with North Korea is the "Three-Stage National Community Unification Formula" (hereafter "Unification Formula"), first declared by the Roh Tae-woo administration in 1989 and partially revised by the Kim Young-sam administration in 1994. However, the Korean Peninsula has changed drastically for the worse in recent years, and achieving "reconciliation and cooperation," the first part of the three-stage formula, has become unrealistic. North Korea continues to arm itself with nuclear weapons and, at the beginning of 2024, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un suddenly declared the inter-Korean relationship as a hostile one between two separate states and renounced Pyongyang's long-standing peaceful unification policy, making the prospect of unification even more distant.

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