The Yushin declaration, which was announced on October 17, 1972 came out at the peak of South–North Korean talks. Park Jeong–hi justified his efforts under the name of security and the unification of the Korean Peninsula, which he believed was plausible. Park wanted to reorganize the system for South–North Korean talks, but the Yushin system was not a system suitable for that. The Yushin system hardly escaped the condemnation for building dictatorship under the pretext of preparing for unification. After South–North Korean talks failed, Park pursued the maintenance of the divided state. Under the Yushin system, he did not try for more discussion about the Korean unification. He adhered to a policy of confrontation with North Korea as a status quo strategy designed for management of the division. It was supported by strong anti–Communist sentimentality. The South–North Korean relations without talks caused continuous confrontations and the attitude of ignoring each other, which was the reality of the Yushin era of the 1970s. In a constant state of South–North Korean relations without actual South–North talks, the framework of the Yushin system including the National Council for Unification remained.