director, from your sources in other countries about wolff s book and what has transpired this first week of the new year? i ve spoken with responsible representatives of two countries that are very close allies, won t name them, of ours and with whom we have a very close intelligence connection. and they are concerned about it. they ve been concerned about the president and his behavior ever since he was elected. and so this sort of heightens that angst among many foreign observers and friends and allies of ours. so it s worrisome for them. before i let you go, director clapper, i have to ask you about north korea. tonight, for the first time since december of 2015, north and south korea negotiators are talking in the joint security area, also known as the truce
these two countries are technically still at war. here s cnn s will ripley. it s a vivid reminder of what s at stake on the planes. reporter: the first official talks in two years between north and south korea will be held is in the so-called truce village. straddling the 38th parallel. the tense dividing line between two neighbors still technically at war. delegations from both sides of the dmz will be sitting a stone s throw away from the path on north korean soldier took in november in a dramatic defection, shot five times, running south. the talks will take place in peace house, one of three buildings in the truce village built specifically for discussions like this. two in the south, one in the north. sometimes the two have
korean demilemilitary rised.e the first official talks in two years between north and south korea will be held in the so-called truce village. the dividing line between two neighbors still at war. delegates will be sitting a stone s throw away from the path a north korean soldier took in november in a dramatic defection, shot five times running south. the talks will take place in peace house, one of three buildings built specifically for discussions like this, two in the south, one in the north. sometimes they have disagreements over which side the talks should be on. reporter: this time they re on the south side. north korean officials will likely pass through the same
bigger and bigger. and in north korea, the situation might actually be improving. beginning in south korea where the leadership is offering to start new talks one week from today. an attempt to capitalize on kim jong-un s suggestion that 2018 could bring north and south korea closer together. nbc s kelly cobila is in south korea. how big of a deal is this? this is a huge deal. these two countries haven t sat down for high-level talks in over two years. 2015 was the last time they met. it didn t go particularly well. here s the proposal. south korea is saying that the two sides should meet in the demille temilitarized zone next. they would meet in a place called truce village. not the official name of course. but sort of the nickname that it goes by now. the topic of discussion, the
nic robertson, thank you so much for that story. on to the korean peninsula where tensions are high and rhetoric is high as well. there are efforts to stop a war from breaking out. north and south korea have been holding talks at the truce village along the demilitarized zone. let s go to south korea and cnn s kyung lah. as the talks continue, south korea officials are saying the north is ramping up the military. what more can you tell us? reporter: the defense ministry is detecting from the north while all of the peace talks are happening to cool things down on the peninsula, what the south is seeing is a doubling of the artillery on the northern front. they are seeing the north move troops in. doubling that. the submarines, 70% of north