South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met with President Donald Trump today and presented his nation’s speech to the UN General Assembly. In both meetings he called for a reconciliation between North and South Korea. Lee supported President Trump’s expressed interest in holding a meeting with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un. Lee told the UNGA meeting that Trump’s effort to renew the meetings he held with Kim during his first term was a “hard won opportunity for change.” There is no date for such a meeting, but Trump has said that he hopes to meet Kim “later this year.”

CNBC reported that Lee said in his speech: “We will lay the groundwork for this to develop into a dialogue among the parties aimed at ending the war on the Korean Peninsula and transitioning to a peace regime.” North and South Korea are still formally at war, as the Korean War stopped in 1953 with an armistice and not a peace treaty.

CNBC adds: “As part of this process, he said, Seoul aims for a stop to further advances in North Korea’s nuclear and missile capabilities. This would then be followed by a reduction in such capabilities in the North in the medium term, before moving toward [a] Korean Peninsula free from nuclear weapons over the long term.”

Trump and Lee also discussed South Korean investment in the U.S. “Seoul, under its trade deal struck with Washington last year, had committed to invest $350 billion into the U.S.” CNBC added: “The summit also reportedly saw the two leaders vow to deepen cooperation in areas such as nuclear submarine fuel, reprocessing, shipbuilding collaboration, and wartime operational control transition, according to national security adviser Wi Sung-lac.” The Trump Administration China hawks, especially Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby, strongly support the notion of a U.S.-led containment of China, with both Japan and South Korea being central parts of that policy.