Kim, Jong-un seems determined to remove unification and ethnic identity from North Korea’s policies in order to dissuade North Korean residents from considering reconciliation, unification, or even kinship. He declared that “the Supreme People’s Assembly newly legalized the policy of our Republic toward the South on the basis of putting an end to nearly 80 years-long history of inter-Korean relations and recognizing that two states both exist on the Korean peninsula,” which is a reiteration of ‘two belligerent states on the Korean peninsula.’