Title: President Park visits art and photo exhibits representing unification in Berlin
We begin this Thursday evening in Berlin where President Park Geun-hye has kicked off the third day of her state visit to Germany.
She started off the day by looking around art and photo exhibits that represent unification and freedom.
The Korean president stopped by Berlin's East Side Gallery, which is what's left of the Berlin Wall.
More than 1-hundred artists from around the world painted murals there to commemorate the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall that led to German unification.
President Park also visited a photo exhibition that compares scenes from the demilitarized zone on the Korean peninsula and Germany's Grunes Band , which is now an ecological park.
The president had proposed turning the DMZ that divides the two Koreas into something similar.
Title: Germany pledges support for inter-Korean reunification
The day before, the Korean president who's been campaigning for the reunification of the two Koreas there, secured the full support of Berlin, based on Germany's own unification experience.
While the Korean president called the reunification of the two Koreas a "bonanza," the German Chancellor said her country's experience was "glucksfall" - the German equivalent.
Our presidential office correspondent Choi You-sun reports.
At a joint press conference, Chancellor Merkel said Germany, which has gone through unification itself, is responsible for supporting the two Koreas' will to reunite.
And President Park and the German Chancellor agreed to set up a cooperative system to prepare the Korean peninsula for social and economic unity.
"Taking into account Germany's unification experience and knowledge, I plan to lay the groundwork for a peaceful reunification on the Korean peninsula."
When asked about President Park's recent description of reunification on the Korean peninsula as a "bonanza," Merkel said Germany's unification was, indeed, a bonanza.
Coming from the communist East herself, Merkel said she witnessed the lives of more than 17 million East Germans change for the better after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
"A lot of economic support will be necessary in connection with a reunification. The second thing is that people should be prepared to get to know very different biographies."
President Park also garnered Merkel's support behind her trust-building policies towards North Korea, at the same time urging Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
On the economic front, the two leaders agreed to expand cooperation between the two sides' small and mid-sized firms, in vocational training, and science and technology.
Earlier in the day, President Park visited the Brandenburg Gate, a landmark in Berlin symbolic of German unification.
"Behind me is the Brandenburg Gate, which President Park visited earlier on this Wednesday. She'll continue with her reunification campaign in Germany this week, by meeting former officials at the center of German unification and laying out details of her reunification policies during a speech in Dresden.
