1. “Reviewing the Year: Kim Jong Un’s 2019 New Year’s Address, in Full,” NK News, January 1, 2019, https://www.nknews.org/2018/12/reviewing-the-year-state-media-coverage-of-the-new-years-address/?c=1546318206514.
2. Quote in David E. Sanger, “Kim and Trump Back at Square One: If U.S. Keeps Sanctions, North Will Keep Nuclear Program,” New York Times, January 1, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/world/asia/kim-trump-nuclear.html.
3. “Trump Shows Off Letter from Kim Jong Un, Says Relationship Is ‘Strong,’” Global News, January 2, 2019, https://globalnews.ca/video/4808609/trump-shows-off-letter-from-kim-jong-un-says-relationship-is-strong.
4. Ibid.
5. Shin Seok-ho, “Shin Seok-ho gijaeui ooahan: 17nyeonjjae Buk yeonguhan jeonmungijaga bon ‘Kim Jung Un shinnyeonsa’ euimineun” [Elegant journalist Shin Seok-ho: the meaning of Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s speech after covering North for 17 years], Donga Ilbo, January 1, 2019, http://news.donga.com/home/3/all/20190101/93515446/1?utm_source=DongaApp&utm_medium=app&.
6. “Reviewing the Year: Kim Jong Un’s 2019 New Year’s address, in full.”
7. KDI gyeongjae jeonmang [KDI Economic Outlook] 25, no. 2 (2018): 8.
8. “Korea’s Economic Growth Forecast to Slow to 2.6% in 2019,” Korea Herald, November 29, 2018, http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20181129000671.
9. Patrick M. Cronin, Van Jackson, Elbridge Colby, et al., Solving Long Division: The Geopolitical Implications of Korean Unification (Washington, D.C.: Center for a New American Security, 2015), 10.
10. Tara O, The Collapse of North Korea: Challenges, Planning and Geopoltics of Unification (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 2.
11. “Transcript of Telephone Conversation Between the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) and the White House Chief of Staff (Haig), Washington, D.C., March 15, 1973,” Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. X, Vietnam, January 1973–July 1975, https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v10/d31.
12. Bruce W. Bennett, Alternative Paths to Korean Unification (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2018), ix.
13. Cronin, Jackson, Colby, et al., Solving Long Division, 10.
14. South Koreans and Their Neighbors 2018, Asan Poll (Seoul: Asan Institute for Policy Studies, 2018), 13.
15. Ibid., 13.
16. Ibid., 14.
17. Kim Jiyoon, Kildong Kim, and Kang Chungku, “South Korean Youths’ Perceptions of North Korea and Unification,” Issue Brief 3 (2018): 3.
18. Ibid., 7.
19. Ibid., 9.
20. “A Changing North Korea,” Liberty in North Korea, https://www.libertyinnorthkorea.org/learn-a-changing-north-korea.