Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has again urged China to pressure North Korea to end its nuclear missile testing as the rogue state launched another rocket on Sunday.
Ms Bishop says North Korea is going down the path of being a global risk to security, and economic sanctions, diplomacy and dialogue are needed.
"While ever North Korea continues these dangerous, risky, provocative acts ... we have an unstable region. That is not acceptable," she told reporters in Cairns on Sunday.
The missile flew 700 km and reached an altitude of more than 2000 km, according to officials in South Korea and Japan, further and higher than an intermediate-range missile North Korea successfully tested in February from the same region of Kusong, northwest of its capital, Pyongyang.
The US Pacific Command said it was assessing the type of missile but it was "not consistent with an intercontinental ballistic missile".
