Trump says U.S. unwilling to lift DPRK sanctions

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference after a summit with DPRK’s top leader Kim Jong Un, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. [Photo: AP/ Evan Vucci]

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

Trump said on Thursday that DPRK 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.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday at the news conference in Hanoi that he wishes the two sides could have gotten further.

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

(Story includes material sourced from AP.)