US President Donald Trump has left Vietnam in mid-afternoon Thursday after holding a press conference explaining the no-deal summit. 
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force Once at Noi Bai International Airport. Photo: AFP
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The car leaves JW Marriott. Photo: Soha
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Trump has promised to phone South Korean President Moon Jae-in on his way back to the US, and also to brief Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the failed talks, according to CNN.
Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim remains in Vietnam where he is due to begin an official state visit Friday.
Earlier at the press conference held in JW Marriott – the luxury hotel which the US president stayed for the summit – Trump told reporters that Kim has promised not to conduct further test of rockets and nuclear weapons.
“I trust him, I take him at his word, I hope that’s true,” Trumps said.
The president also reiterates his view that North Korea has enormous economic potential, saying that it could become “one of the most rapidly successful countries on Earth” and “an absolute economic power”.
Taking questions from the press, Trump acknowledged that US sanctions against North Korea remain the biggest sticking point in negotiations with North Korea.
Trump confirms all existing sanctions remain in place, later saying that North Korea offered to denuclearize some areas but not all of those requested by the US. But he refuses to comment on whether the US would be willing to allow North Korea to keep some nuclear weapons.
In response to the move, South Korean stocks post their biggest one-day drop in four months as the Trump-Kim summit ended without an agreement.
Among the hardest hit stocks are South Korean infrastructure companies, which rose in recent days on hopes of a peace deal.
“The collapse of the Trump-Kim summit has definitely had some negative effect on South Korean stocks, as the country is susceptible to military factors with North Korea,” Margaret Yang, an analyst at CMC Markets in Singapore told Al Jazeera.
