more than a year without telling the observary and without telling us. we went every time we asked for and up/down on his condition. we never got a response. that was deception. kim jong-un was certainly police it in that deception, george. >> here in the united states everything seems to be viewed from a binary position. you would say the president walked away from the bad deal. you would say democrats have criticism saying he came back with nothing to show for it. how is north korea framing this summit? >> reporter: well, the sense i have gotten from speaking to my sources, is that the north koreans didn't think the negotiations needed to end so abruptly. they felt they were making progress, getting down to business, expanding what they were offering. hoping that the u.s. would be willing to budge on this contentious issue of sanctions relief up front. and the north koreans were, frankly, shocked and bewildered