are meeting behind closed doors right now, they re in their sixth hour of conversations there. to prevent the situation from turning in to an all-out are war. after north korea told the south to stop blasting pop began today over loud speakers oig. two sides exchanged fire earlier this week and kathy novak is live from the demilitarized zone near where they are having these conversations. what are you hearing about that meeting so far? reporter: well, it s getting closer to mid night here. so these talks have been going on for several hours as you say. quite remarkable that they re happening at al after the kind of tensions that we have been seeing building. so a hopeful sign that these people are coming together at this truce village to try to handler out some sort of way to deescalate the situation. but as you say, both sides still on the ready at a very high state of alert. we know that the sticking point are these propaganda speakers that the south is refusing to