South Korean President Park Geun-hye is expected to use her upcoming trip to Germany to emphasize the reunification of Korea.

Park is to be in the Netherlands and then Germany from Tuesday to Friday. Capping the trip will be Park’s visit on Friday to the Dresden University of Technology, the best-known university in the former East Germany, where she is to receive an honorary doctorate.

With German reunification taking place in 1990 and the collapse of the Soviet Union following in 1991, every Korean president since Kim Young-sam in 1995 has used a trip to Germany as a platform for