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The purpose of this paper is to explore a possibility of the unification of the Korean Peninsula through permanent neutrality that would contribute to the peace in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. This paper lists five steps to realize the unification of the Korean Peninsula in permanent neutrality. The first step is the period of confidence building between South and North Korea; the second one is to change the existing political system, in which each party pledges to confront the other; the third one is that the two Koreas will accept a confederation or federation system as the unification process of the Korean Peninsula. In this stage, both sides should revise their constitution to include articles recognizing a permanent neutralized state; the fourth one is available for South and North Korea to separately put themselves into the permanent neutral state in continuing the current system; the fifth is the last one in which South and North Korea will achieve their unification as a permanent neutral state. In order to realize the unification of the Korean Peninsula through permanent neutrality, the peoples and leaders of South and North Korea should express their strong will for neutralization to the four great powers