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Made too many concessions in exchange for nothing but a vague promise. president trump heading back to washington tonight amid questions about whether he gave more than he got in return for a historic summit in singapore. trump dispatching secretary of state mike pompeo to iron out the details of his agreement with key u.s. allies. >> thank you very much. its fantastic. >> reporter: both trump and kim jong-un pledging to pursue denuclearization. signing a pact that was short on details. no timet...

I believe a lot of great things can ppen. yes, go ahead. please. >> sir, you just listed off a lot of things you got in the meeting. it wasnt too long ago that you said you defined skegs -- success of the meeting by north korea giving up the nuclear weapons. how will you have a verifiable and irreversible -- can you say why you didnt secure those details in the agreement? >> because theres no time. im here one day. were together for many hours intensively. the process will take place. i would be...

Stay in place. and something they worked out at the last minute and that is the bottom line right there. a number of sets of remains of pows and mias and korean war will be returned to their family. the big thing is the denuking. sean hannity before the press conference, actually sat down with the president hour. think in excels of a that was the topic he spoke of here. >> i just think we are now going to start the process of denuclearization of north korea and i believe that he is going back an...

>> reporter: sir, you just listed off a lot of things you say you got in this meeting. it wasnt too long ago that you defined success of this meeting by north korea giving up its nuclear weapons. >> thats what theyre doing. >> reporter: can you talk about how you pressed the -- kim jong-un to -- for a complete verifiable irreversible denuclearization and can you say why you didnt secure those details in this agreement? >> because theres no time. im here one day. were together for m hours intensi...

Noticed at the beginning of the conference he took a bit of a swipe at president xi of china saying theyve done a great job on the border but later in the last few months not as great as it was loosening control. so hes suggesting china is already loosening sanctions and again, a question hanging in the air, is the maximum press campaign now dead? i mean, beijing may well feel that it is time to ease off on the sanctions and on those key points, no specifics. he did define denuclearization. he v...

Missiles and bombs, we cant use our testing site right now. maybe we can trade a little bit of what weve done or might do for some economic relief or some sanctions relief. depending on why we think we got to where we are, that its pressure on our part, or rather the north koreans decided we could get something out of this. that tells awe lot about where we think we could go. >> they raised the point where they had the ability to threaten the delivery of a nuclear weapon anywhere in the the cont...

Talks so they can follow through on that agreement that the two sides signed on april 27th. this, hallie, think is what is key, these small steps. south korea saying that its going to push ahead. china giving the same message, that they want to continue to build on the momentum thats been established and having direct talks with north korea to try to boost relations. perhaps even independent of the united states or president trump. the view from here is portraying kim jong-un as the more reasona...

Inspectors to watch. experts say that damage could be reversed if the north just wants to start testing a again. greg palkot is live in seoul, south korea. what more are you learning about the north korean testing site. >> trace, were awaiting the first images from the closure of that nuclear test site. were told maybe they will come in about three hours time. as you noted, there were invited foreign journalists at the scene. theyre making their way back from the far northeast corner down to an ...

Larger than life figures. its a very good idea for a photo-op summit. its not a good idea for a negotiating summit. >> ambassador haas, in your opinion, is it pressure the president has placed behind north korea that were seeing or something to do with south korea driving it because theyre scare what could happen as a result of the increased rhetoric? >> it could be either of those, and let me suggest the third possible reason weve gotten to this point, anderson, which is that north korea has re...

Ways. he knows how this works. he has produced boxing fights. this would be pay-per-view television, to have it at the dmz with these two incredibly bigger than life figures. its good for a summit. >> is it misplaced, what the president has placed behind this movement or are they worried about what could happen as a result of the increased rhetoric? >> it could be either of those, and let me suggest the third possible reason weve gotten to this point, anderson, which is that north korea has reac...