Do people of North Korea want to be unified with South Korea?

As far as we can tell, the answer is yes. Obviously, it isn’t possible to poll the people of North Korea the way we can poll the people of South Korea. The best we can get is interviews with North Korean defectors and with North Korean citizens living in China. It’s probably not the most representative sample, of course, but support for reunification is very high among this group. See, for instance, this survey of 100 North Koreans living in China. While their reasons varied, 95 of them considered reunification “very necessary.”

While I think there is probably the desire for some measure of reunification I do not really see it as something the average North Korean thinks about very often. They have been separated for quite some time now, eighty-five years I believe, so I think that the vast majority of ties between families has somewhat lessened. We are talking about four generations here. Almost everyone who was an adult when it happened must be dead by now and those who were children are in their dotage. I know from personal experience that being separated from family as a child means that the relatives that were close to your parents become friends or at least friendly to you and mere acquaintances to your own children; strangers who you are polite to and hug when introduced because they are “family”. I have cousins that I have never seen or at least never remember seeing. We even correspond on FB but we don’t know each other.
And reconcilliation would have to be based on the desire for a better living environment I believe, not familial.
Of course, my experience is that of a European/American, not someone with an Asian background.

The division is slightly less—maybe 65–70 years. The division began around 1945 and was fully divided by 1950.

But the epochs of time not much difference.

Maybe not the general populace, but the governing body of the north does…so it’s all totally under their Communist rule. (IMO)

If they knew the truth. Hard to know exactly what the majority of the population really knows about anything.

It definitely seems that South Korea wants peace, and unification.

I don’t know but there may be something by:
“Bradley Martin, one of the leading experts on the DPRK and author of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty.”