[On-point] N. Korea reaffirms ties with China, as S. Korea's Lee prepares U.S. visit

North Korea's Kim Jong-un met China's Xi Jinping in Beijing for the first time in six years, and their rare one-on-one meeting was largely focused on reaffirming friendship.

As for South Korea, President Lee Jae Myung will be traveling to New York later this month where he could meet his American counterpart Donald Trump for the second time in around a month.

For more on this, we're joined by Professor Kim Dong-soo, Professor at the Division of international and area studies, at Pukyong National University.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sat down for talks with China's Xi and Russia's Putin in Beijing. What's your assessment of North Korea moving closer to Beijing and Moscow?

It was a dramatic image: Kim, Xi, and Putin appearing together in public. Will the United States try to further strengthen trilateral ties with South Korea and Japan in response?

President Lee Jae Myung is set to attend the UN General Assembly later this month and chair a meeting there. He will be the first South Korean leader to preside over a UN Security Council meeting as South Korea assumes the rotating presidency this month, right? What makes this so significant?

Will President Lee's visit to New York provide an opportunity for him to meet President Donald Trump again? Could there also be a trilateral summit that includes Japan?

Alright. Thank you so much for your insight today. We appreciate it.