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'Sometimes you have to walk': Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un ends without a deal

HANOI, Vietnam - President Donald Trump cut short his summit with Kim Jong Un on Thursday, rejecting the North Korean leader's offer to dismantle a major nuclear complex in exchange for the removal of U.S. economic sanctions.

Trump said the U.S. wanted more concessions from Kim and that talks would continue. But the president wouldn't commit to holding a third summit after two high-profile meetings have failed to produce a concrete agreement on rolling back North Korea's nuclear weapons program.

"Sometimes you have to walk," Trump told a news conference here in the Vietnamese capital before departing for Washington on Air Force One. "This was one of those times."

The summit's collapse represented a setback for Trump, who watched his made-for-TV diplomacy

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