The Latest: NK state media says summit deepened trust

HANOI, Vietnam — The Latest on the summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (all times local):

7:30 a.m. Friday

North Korea's state media says the second summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump helped deepen "mutual respect and trust" between the countries as they work toward resolving the nuclear standoff and improving bilateral relations.

The report by the Korean Central News Agency on Friday comes hours after senior North Korean officials disputed Trump's account of why his summit with Kim collapsed, saying the North didn't call for a full removal of sanctions but demanded partial relief in exchange for shuttering its main nuclear complex.

The KCNA says Trump and Kim had a "constructive and candid" exchange of views and agreed to keep in close touch for the "denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the epochal development" in bilateral relations.

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6:50 a.m. Friday

Biden says, "I hope the president has learned a really important lesson: Diplomacy matters."

Biden made the comments Thursday while headlining a forum on global leadership with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Biden says Trump "treats everything like it's a real estate deal — just let me in the room and I can convince the other party to make a deal."

Instead, Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says "it requires hard, hard, hard and consistent diplomacy."

Biden is considering mounting a Democratic bid against Trump in 2020.

6:30 a.m.

The U.S. and North Korea are offering contradictory accounts of why the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un broke down, though both are pointing to punishing American sanctions as a sticking point in the high-stakes nuclear negotiation.

President Trump, on his way back to Washington on Thursday, said before leaving Hanoi that the talks collapsed because North Korea's leader insisted that all the sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Pyongyang be lifted without the North firmly committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal.

But North Korea challenged that account, insisting it had asked only partial sanctions relief in exchange for shutting down its main nuclear complex.

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North Korea says the United States has squandered an opportunity for a nuclear deal and may not get another chance.

President Donald Trump says his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (gihm jung oon) broke down because North Korea insisted that all U.S. sanctions be lifted. But North Korea disputed that, saying the North demanded only partial sanctions relief.

North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui says she believes her country's leader "may have lost his will (to continue) North Korea-U.S. dealings." She says she believes Kim is finding it "difficult to understand" why the summit collapsed.

Earlier, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho said Washington wasted an opportunity that "may not come again."

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President Donald Trump is stressing the United States' military power as he stops at a military base in Alaska on his way back to Washington after an unsuccessful summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un (gihm jung oon).

Trump did not directly respond to North Korea's assertion that he had mischaracterized the reason the summit collapsed. Instead, Trump said the U.S. was investing in missile defense technology, and he issued a broad warning to U.S. enemies.

Said Trump: "America does not seek conflict, but if we are forced to defend ourselves we will fight and we will win in an overwhelming fashion."

Trump said before leaving Hanoi that the talks broke down because Kim insisted that all U.S. sanctions be lifted without the North committing to eliminate its nuclear arsenal. But North Korea's foreign minister said the North demanded only partial sanctions relief in exchange for shutting down its main nuclear complex.

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North Korea is disputing President Donald Trump's account of why the summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (gihm jung oon) collapsed.

North Korea's foreign minister says the North demanded only partial sanctions relief in exchange for shuttering its main nuclear complex, and that the discussions collapsed after the U.S. demanded further disarmament steps.

Ri Yong Ho's comments during an abruptly scheduled news conference in Hanoi on Friday contradicted the explanation by Trump, who hours earlier told reporters that the North had demanded a full removal of sanctions in exchange for shuttering the Yongbyon nuclear facility.

Ri says the North was also ready to offer in writing a permanent halt of the country's nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and that Washington wasted an opportunity that "may not come again."

He says the North's position wouldn't change even if the United States offers to resume another round of dialogue.

8:20 p.m. Thursday

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says nuclear negotiations with North Korea will resume quickly following the collapse of President Donald Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un.

Pompeo tells reporters aboard his plane Thursday that his team will get back to work "tomorrow" although no new meetings have yet been scheduled.

Pompeo said progress was made between Trump and Kim at their talks in Hanoi but not enough to warrant signing any kind of agreement. The White House had scheduled a signing ceremony but abruptly canceled it along with a lunch when it became clear an agreement could not be reached.

Pompeo spoke as he flew to Manila from Hanoi, Vietnam, for talks with senior Philippines officials.

6:35 p.m.

South Korea's presidential office says U.S. President Donald Trump regretted the collapse of his nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam but expressed "firm" commitment to continue negotiations.

The office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that Trump in a phone conversation with Moon discussed the details of his talks with Kim as he flew out of Vietnam.

The Blue House says Moon encouraged Trump to continue his efforts for accomplishing the "historic feat of resolving the world's last remaining Cold War rivalry." It says the leaders agreed to meet soon to discuss the nuclear issue.

Trump says he "walked away" from talks with Kim after it was clear the two sides remained at odds over ending the North's nuclear program.

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5:10 p.m.

The Kremlin says that talks at the U.S.-North Korean nuclear summit in Vietnam appear to have failed because the parties proved unwilling to compromise and make concessions.

Talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrapped up two hours earlier on Thursday after the parties failed to reach an agreement. Trump says the U.S. was unwilling to meet North Korea's demand to remove all U.S.-led international sanctions in exchange for the shuttering of a North Korean nuclear facility.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Moscow is encouraged by the fact the negotiations did not break down completely. But Peskov laments the lack of "small steps" and flexibility that could have helped to achieve some progress.

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4:55 p.m.

China says the U.S. and North Korea must "meet each other halfway" after no agreement was reached between the two countries' leaders during their nuclear summit in Vietnam.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said during a regular news briefing Thursday that the situation in the Korean Peninsula experienced a significant "turnaround" over the past year, a "hard-won result" that is worth cherishing.

Lu says the U.S. and North Korea have returned to the correct path toward a political settlement, which is "the only way out."

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4:30 p.m.

South Korea's presidential office says it was "unfortunate" that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to produce an agreement in their high-stakes nuclear summit in Vietnam. But it says it expects "active dialogue" to continue between Washington and Pyongyang.

The Blue House said Thursday it believes Washington and Pyongyang deepened their understandings of each other during their "long and deep discussions" in Hanoi.

It says Trump raising the possibility of sanctions relief in exchange for nuclear disarmament steps from the North shows that the nuclear negotiations between the countries have entered an "elevated level."

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3:50 p.m.

President Donald Trump has departed Vietnam after failing to reach an agreement during his second nuclear summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

The U.S. leader said he "walked away" from talks with Kim after it was clear the two sides remained at odds in talks over ending the North's nuclear program.

Trump says the North had demanded a full removal of U.S.-led international sanctions in exchange for the shuttering of the North's Yongbyon nuclear facility, and the U.S. wouldn't agree to that.

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3:40 p.m.

South Korean media are reacting with alarm over the collapse of the nuclear summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Yonhap news agency said Thursday that the clock on the security situation of the Korean Peninsula has "turned back to zero" and that the diplomatic push to resolve the nuclear standoff with the North was now "at a crossroads."

Financial News wondered whether Washington and Pyongyang would struggle to keep the momentum of dialogue alive and anticipated the nuclear negotiations becoming a prolonged battle.

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3:25 p.m.

President Donald Trump is hopeful that India and Pakistan may be on the cusp of progress after the two countries exchanged gunfire through the night along the Kashmir region a day after Islamabad said it shot down two Indian warplanes and captured a pilot.

Trump told reporters Thursday at the end of a two-day summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam that India and Pakistan have "been going at it" and that the U.S. has been involved, "trying to help them both out" to "see if we can get some organization and some peace."

He says: "I think probably that's going to be happening," adding: "We have, I think, reasonably attractive news from Pakistan and India."

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3:05 p.m.

President Donald Trump says his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fell through after the North demanded a full removal of U.S.-led international sanctions in exchange for the shuttering of the North's Yongbyon nuclear facility.

Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters in Vietnam on Thursday that the United States wasn't willing to make a deal without the North committing to giving up its secretive nuclear facilities outside Yongbyon as well as its missile and warheads program.

Experts have said Washington shouldn't give up too much for a Yongbyon-only deal as the North is believed to be secretly operating other uranium enrichment sites hidden around the country.

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3 p.m.

President Donald Trump says he doesn't think North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was involved in the mistreatment of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died after being detained in the isolated country.

Trump says of Kim: "He tells me that he didn't know about it, and I will take him at his word."

Trump has taken credit for freeing American prisoners abroad and used Warmbier's death as a rallying cry against the North's human rights abuses before softening his rhetoric in advance of talks with Kim.

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2:55 p.m.

President Donald Trump won't commit to saying the U.S. is demanding complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea before removing sanctions on that country.

Trump spoke Thursday at a news conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, after he announced that he had walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without a deal being reached.

Trump says: "I don't want to put myself in that position from the standpoint of negotiation."

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2:50 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has not committed to a third summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after their second summit ended early without a deal.

Trump told reporters at a news conference in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday at the end of two days of talks that "we'll see if it happens," but that he has "not committed."

As for any further meetings, Trump says, "It might be soon. It might not be for a long time."

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2:25 p.m.

President Donald Trump is explaining the abrupt and early end to his Vietnamese summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un by telling reporters: "Sometimes you have to walk."

Trump said Thursday that North Korea wanted him to lift U.S. sanctions on the country in exchange for denuclearization, but he wasn't willing to do that.

Still, he says Kim assured him he'll continue to hold off on nuclear and missile tests.

He says they asked Kim to do more and "he was unprepared to do that."

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1:40 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have failed to reach an agreement at their second summit in Vietnam, but talks between the two nations will continue in the future.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says the two leaders discussed denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. She adds: "No agreement was reached at this time, but their respective teams look forward to meeting in the future."

Trump and Kim departed the hotel where they've been holding summit negotiations far earlier than planned Thursday. A joint agreement signing ceremony was scrapped.

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1:25 p.m.

President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have departed the hotel where they've been holding summit negotiations far earlier than planned.

The leaders had been expected to hold a working lunch as well as attend a joint agreement signing ceremony at the Hanoi Metropole hotel on Thursday. Instead, they departed in separate motorcades within minutes of each other after doing neither.

Trump is scheduled to hold a news conference at 2 p.m. — two hours earlier than originally scheduled — before he departs Hanoi.

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12:55 p.m.

Talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un are wrapping up earlier than expected.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Thursday that "negotiations are still ongoing" between the two delegations. Trump and Kim were scheduled to have lunch but did not enter the dining room where reporters were assembled.