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This article analyzes the resurrection of the peace and prosperity policy in the Kim Jong-un regime and difference in perspective of inter-Koreas. Until now, there have been two times when the core discourses of North Korea's unification policy, self-reliant unification and peaceful unification, intersect with peaceful prosperity. The Kim Jong-Il regime has put forward ‘passive peace and prosperity policies’ for inter-Korean economic cooperation in the background of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons program and the economic crisis. However, the Kim Jong-Un regime pursued a ‘active peace and prosperity policy’ with the aim of in the background of denuclearization talks and seeking a new path for national economic development. Accordingly, in 2018, internal and external media outlets in North Korea be reduced their mention to independent reunification and peaceful unification, and the proportion of mention of peaceful prosperity overtakes. And the proportion of the intersection of peaceful prosperity and peaceful reunification is much higher than that of Korean media. Even in 2019, when the denuclearization talks broke down, mentions of peace and prosperity tend to increase significantly. While references to prosperity have been reduced since 2020, while maintaining peace, it has refrained from mentioning self-reliant unification, peaceful unification, and the ‘Three Principles of National Unification’. This can also be interpreted as an unspoken “pressure” that induces the South Korean government to take an active role forward while maintaining the pulse of the inter-Korean peace and prosperity. Currently, the goal of North Korea's peace and prosperity policy is a great transformation in inter-Korean relations by stabilizing and establishing peace on the Korean peninsula without foreign interference , and the improvement of external relation.