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Now it is up to North Korea. Let me get back to work on why the meeting ended yesterday (28th) without agreement. First, in the area of ​​sanctions, the United States revealed that North Korea actually demanded a total lifting of sanctions, while North Korea only demanded some. In response to the US demand that North Korea release other nuclear weapons besides Yongbyon if it is to do so, North Korea has confronted this point, as far as Yongbyon is concerned, at its current level.

In Hanoi, Kim Soo-hyoung reports.

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President Trump told a press conference that he had been discussing with Kim Jong-un, and that he had placed other nuclear facilities on the negotiation table.

[Trump / President: We found a new (nuclear facility) that people did not know. It seemed North Korea was very surprised that we knew this.]

Secretary of State Pompeii added that the facility is very large and that the nuclear warhead weapon system is out of the discussion and has not been agreed upon.

On the other hand, North Korea's requirement was a complete lifting of sanctions.

The Yongbyon nuclear facility was dismantled and it was demanded that the economic sanctions be lifted altogether.

[Trump / US President: North Korea wanted to lift full sanctions, but we could not do that.]

In the end, the two leaders failed to narrow the gap in the negotiations, and the two leaders could not even write an agreement.

In the political and media circles in the United States, suspicions have been raised that North Korea is secretly operating other nuclear facilities besides Yongbyon.

President Trump has chosen a strategy to dismiss the settlement, despite criticism that he has only been able to mitigate sanctions based on agreements that are difficult to evaluate as success.