President Donald Trump’s nuclear negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam have been abruptly cut short.
The White House announced Thursday that Trump’s planned press conference was being moved up by two hours – to 2 p.m. local time. That was originally scheduled to be the time for a joint statement and agreement signing by Trump and Kim.
It’s unclear whether a signing will still take place at all.
You can watch the press conference here live.
Trump’s appearance – in the middle of the night for most of America – comes hours after his former longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen gave explosive testimony on Capitol Hill in which he called the President a “racist,” a “con man” and a “cheat.”
Trump is hoping to convince the the 35-year-old dictator that moving away from his nuclear and missile programs could bring North Korea out of the cold.
Without nuclear weapons, North Korea “could fast become one of the greatest economic powers in the World,” Trump tweeted ahead of his departure for the high-profile meeting in Vietnam.
The historic first meeting between the leaders of the world’s largest nuclear power and the most reclusive one last June drew public criticism for a lack of tangible denuclearization results.
This time around, Trump has soft-pedaled expectations. “I don’t want to rush anybody. I just don’t want testing. As long as there’s no testing, we’re happy,” he reportedly told attendees of the White House’s Governor’s Ball.
In Singapore, Trump offered his counterpart a major concession: the suspension of joint military exercises with South Korean forces. But experts have warned that Trump’s eagerness to make a deal is unlikely to lead to a unilateral dismantling of the arsenal.
“Any substantive agreement must be implemented on an ‘action for action’ basis,” Sung-Yoon Lee, professor of Korean Studies at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, told TIME last month.
