Taking office, President Park promised to take new initiative of trust diplomacy with its neighbors. Dubbed as ‘trustpolitik,’ the policy has aimed to bring peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia by forging a higher level of cooperation among nations built on trust. President Park has emphasized a need to rebuild trustwith the isolationist regime in Pyongyang and open up dialogue as part of her two-track North Korea policy. At the same time, President Park drew up a blueprint for the reunification of the two Koreas, describing it as a huge opportunity for the local economy to leapfrog to a whole new level. And she proposed on laying the groundwork for unification through economic exchanges and humanitarian aid in Dresden Germany in March 2014. But the problem is President Park’s trust diplomacy is met with strong suspicion from Pyongyang who criticized South Korea’s unification as a plot to instigate a regime change, if not collapse, in the North. As the tension and mistrust remains high on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea needs to make it clear that the policy priority is to ensure peace and stability between the two Koreas. At the same time, South Korea needs to recognize different priority of North Korean motives among security, well-being, and self-esteem in order to develop effective strategy to build mutual trust with Pyongyang. It needs to continue to engage Pyongyang to build mutual trust and stable partnership first to achieve an eventual peaceful unification.