Australia condemned North Korea's "flagrant defiance" of UN Security Council resolutions and urged the world body to take further action against the "dangerous pariah regime".
"We call for the UN Security Council to urgently consider further strong measures that would place pressure on North Korea to change course," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a joint statement with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
Australia called for all countries, especially the five UN veto powers "to apply the maximum possible pressure to this dangerous pariah regime", according to the statement.
In addition, most of major newspapers allowed the front page for the special coverage on the North Korea's biggest nuclear test, anlysing its impact.
