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>> i see it at ratcheting up the tensions a bit. the carrier strike group from the "uss carl vincent" was not originally scheduled to go back into the waters of the western pacific and the waters near the korean peninsula. i think the trump administration is sending a message, not only to north korea, but also to china, that they are saying this is a time when you cannot and you should not be testing your missiles or your nuclear devices or anything else that could up-end the stability of the korean peninsula and the "carl vincent" is the symbol of american power projection in this case. >> wi...

U.s. on pyongyang. so there are all of these issues that xi jinping is trying to weigh. and what is a very important summit for him. we can't forget that this is a key year for xi jinping at home. he is very conscious of how this is playing out in a domestic audience. he has invited president trump to visit china. it has apparently been accepted. so it will be interesting to see what sort of statement may come from this summit as those two men meet on north korea in the hours to come. >> all right. nbc news's janice mackey live for us from seoul, south korea. thank you very much. still with me...

The quotes here from trump, if china is not going to solve north korea, we will. when you read it, it seems like a threat. how does it sound to you? >> it sounded like someone who was told by president obama that north korea is the most eminent national security threat to america right now because it's moving very close to being able to had the ut mainland with a a nuclear missile. so people see it as a serious threat. and u.s. policy, the policy of strategic patience hasn't worked. there's two things america can do. it can try and work with china to put more pressure on pyongyang to reign in ...

Very difficult choices with respect to possible use of military force to keep if the united states safe. i think the only real acceptable outcome here is the end north korea itself. the reuniting of the korean peninsula. if china wants as it says, wants north korea without nuclear weapons it needs to step up to the plate which it has not done these past 25 years. nikki haley, the current u.s. ambassador to the united nations told me china should i am poas d impose sanctions on pyongyang. >> china is the only one that can november north korea. they can pressure north korea to step back.

Launch. not a big surprise. all the big players there and you had japan call on pyongyang's actions a grave violation of the country's international obligation. nikki haley went further, scathing statement, saying in part it's time to hold the regimen accountable not only with our words but our actions. what could that mean? we have a live report from pyongyang coming up on "new day." we now know the white house knew general flynn had contact with russia last month and discussed sanctions. why did president trump wait weeks to take action? that's ahead.