president xi jinping of china concerning the provocative actions of north korea. additional major sanctions will be imposed on north korea today. this situation will be handled. let's bring in our cnn international correspondent will ripley join us from seoul, south korea right now. will has traveled to the region to north korea i think about 17 times over the past few years. will, north korea hadity own antagonistic message for trump today. tell our viewers first of all what he said. >> yeah, there's a new north korean propaganda message citing a military officer and there's this swagger that i sensed when i was in pyongyang within the last few weeks this rel confidence on the part of the north koreans and this tone towards the u.s. president. kind of matching his rhetoric for much of this year although he's been dialed back lately. let me read you a portion quoting this officer. "i seem so see old lunatic trump