No need for missile defence system: PM

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says Australia is using extensive economic sanctions to try to help bring North Korea to its senses.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Source: AAP

Malcolm Turnbull sees no reason for Australia to have a missile defence system despite threats of a nuclear strike by North Korea.

"Obviously, as threats evolve our response to them would evolve but right at the moment we do not deploy ... the anti-missile system that is being deployed in South Korea," the prime minister told Neil Mitchell on 3AW radio on Friday.

"What we are doing in terms of stopping North Korea is continuing our pressure on the regime through extensive economic sanctions which is designed to bring North Korea to its senses."

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