Abstract
This article criticizes the dominant Western paradigm vis-à-vis North Korea, which is often critical towards it, while Pyongyang has sometimes been able to compromise. This paper seeks to highlight the reasons why North Korea and South Korea have not achieved reunification despite the implementation of the Sunshine Policy from 1998 to 2008. It proposes to find answers to this failure. On the one hand, it looks at the domestic level with the rise of conservatism in South Korea and the immobilism of the people in North Korea. On the other hand, it looks at the reasons for this failure at the international level by mentioning the role of the United States after the election of G. W. Bush.
