Beijing: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's call for China to cut off its oil pipeline to North Korea has prompted a fierce rebuke from a high-circulating Chinese newspaper, which accused him of going beyond even Donald Trump.

The Global Times, which sells more than one million copies, devoted an editorial to Mr Turnbull's "indiscreet" and "absurd" comments, and saying Australia was a "second class citizen of the West".

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on TV in South Korea this week. Credit:AP

"Although President Trump has complained about China in contradictory statements, he has so far never publicly asked China to cut North Korea's oil supply," the Global Times wrote.

The editorial said Australia had become America's loudspeaker in the Asia Pacific.