Yesterday's highly-anticipated North Korea-U.S. summit fizzled out to a whimper rather than going out with a bang.
And right after that, the U.S. President Donald Trump left Hanoi on his Air Force One... and headed back to the U.S.
For more, let's connect live to our Lee Ji-won who is in Hanoi.
Ji-won, give us an update on that.

Yes Ji-yoon. President Donald Trump reportedly landed at the Joint Base Andrews in Maryland about an hour and a half ago,... after completing his three-day trip to Hanoi for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
And answering what many people have in mind,... the White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Air Force One, that President Trump IS aware of North Korea's response to the end of summit.
While he did leave a tweet about other matters an hour ago,...we do not yet have his response on the North's presser.
But according to CNN, a senior U.S. official said lifting the sanctions the North Koreans wanted would have been "subsidizing" North Korea's nuclear program and that the pressure campaign would have been "eviscerated."

Ji-won, tell us more about that sudden press conference held by the North?

Sure Ji-yoon. Near midnight, the North Koreans decided to hold a press conference to share their views of the summit's result. And what we heard from them was a bit different from what we had heard earlier from President Donald Trump.
Let's take a listen.

"We proposed to permanently and completely dismantle all nuclear material-productive facilities in the Yeongbyeon area, including plutonium and uranium, in the presence of U.S. experts and by the joint work of technicians from both sides IF the U.S. removed partial UN sanctions that hamper our economy and the livelihood of our people."

Now, President Trump had earlier said the North Koreans wanted the sanctions lifted in their "entirety", but they were only willing to denuclearize some areas the U.S. wanted, not all of them.

North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho claims they specifically asked to first lift five of the eleven sanctions measures under UN Security Council resolutions that damage the everyday lives of the North Korean people.
Ri said they even offered to write up a promise to permanently cease nuclear testing and missile launches.
And while the North Koreans reportedly said the denuclearization process can pick up speed if they build more trust, they claim the U.S. continued to demand the North give up one more thing on top of dismantling Yeongbyeon.
The regime's foreign minister then warned that Pyeongyang's stance will never change,... and a chance as good as Hanoi may never happen again.

Back to you Ji-yoon.