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Talks, marathon talks, over the weekend between top officials from north and south. under this deal, the north has expressed regret for a land mine incident that badly injured two south korean soldiers. they have also said they'll step back from this quasi state of war which was declared by kim jong-un late last week. and then the south said they'll cease their propaganda broadcasts from these banks of loudspeakers which the north threatened to take out, to target, if they didn't stop. at the same time, the two sides have committed themselves to further dialogue and also possibly to discussion...

Submarines headed out to sea. >> now it's up to the north to act and not simply just make assurances with respect to their own military activities there on the border. >> reporter: u.s. officials tell cnn they had two major worries -- first, the north koreans took the unusual step of giving a specific deadline for threatening to attack the south if it did not stop the speaker propaganda broadcasts. and second, that the south korean government was considering military retaliation in addition to artillery shells it lobbed as an empty field there at the dmz after the soldiers were hurt in a mine ...

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 threate...

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...

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 th...