Regret. it may be a bit of a farce. but it seems they have come up with some sort of agreement, and the national security adviser is on his way back from the dmv now and they are promising to make a statement we hope within the next hour. now, as you say, this has been an incredibly tense two or three days. even today we saw the south korean president talking past, demanding an apology from the north over the land mine incident and saying those propaganda broadcasts into the north would not be stopped until that apology was forthcoming. at the same time the north, of course, saying and threatening continually to take out the speakers that were making those broadcasts into the north. all the time, though, the two
We re so glad you re okay and we appreciate you coming in to talk to u and tell your story. thank you. we move to the breaking news coming out of seoul where talks have ended and a deal has been reached. we re expecting a statement soon. ian williams is live on the phone. he joins us from south korea. what was the deal? what was the compromise? reporter: hi, thomas. we got the details a few minutes ago from the national security director. it does seem to be quite remarkable. what he said is they have regret over the land mine that, of course, led to the south beginning those propaganda broadcasts again. he said in exchange the south will stop all loud speaker broadcasts as of noon tomorrow. he also said they would continue with dial log aogue and negotia
Do that which means this is a crisis running on its own. we are not have china to help us. so let me get this straight. he was a desperate leader is threatening war with south korea and then that would bring us in because of our alliance with south korea and the dmz becomes such a fragile state for so many people who really have to try on to broker some sort of peace there. what do you think is going on in these talks? and you have a million and a half people on both sides ready to shoot each other. both sides have a powerful incentive to avoid war and what they re trying do is settle things. so the south korea side, they have the propaganda broadcasts that thonorth korea hates and sh koreans are saying you have to stop this killing and maiming of our soldiers. so there is a lot to talk about and they spent about 10, 12
And it seems that this would fall in the fashion of the two previous generations of leaders there in north korea, making the threat but then pulling back at the last hospital. what could or what do you think would north korea be willing to give up or to relinquish in order to end this? i mean they also have to win something. what s on the table? well, the north koreans want these propaganda broadcasts ended. they re extremely sensitive about anything that disparages their leader kim jong-un which is the central feature of these south akorean broadcasts. and at the same time the south co koreans want the north koreans to apologize for planting land mine which is maimed a couple soldiers. and it was in response to that incident that the south koreans cranked up the rpropaganda broadcasts. the question is can they find a
Growth. not brilliant, not subpar. unemployment is still coming down and the environment in the u.s. is conducive to raising rates because, the fed tell, things are now getting back to normal. in that scenario, wolf, it some would say i ve no doubt there are people calling it a bear market but there s no reason to believe that at the moment. richard quest staying on top of the story for us. we ll stay in close touch with you, richard, thanks very much. other breaking news we re following, north korea s leader has a reputation for being dangerously erratic and an unpredictable dictator. kim jong-un hates to be threatened so much that he has even executed members of his own family. now the clock is ticking for south korea. turn off the propaganda broadcasts in the next 15 hours or face war. that s the threat from north korea. point of contention, south korea using these loudspeakers to blare criticism of kim jong-un and his regime over the border.