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Like the North Korean tests, each one advanced the knowledge of nuclear destruction.

"Any ballistic missile tests of the kind reported would not be permitted under 1718," Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, told reporters, referring to the United Nations resolution condemning North Korean tests of ballistic missiles and components.

But whatever they learned from previous North Korean tests has not been made public.

South Korean tests carried out on fragments of a rocket fired in December in what the North describes as a satellite launch showed it would have had a range of more than 10,000km (6,200 miles), putting the US well within striking distance.

The North Korean test matters most as a symbol of accumulating trouble.

Moreover, the White House had assessed the probability of a North Korean test this spring as relatively low, officials say.

The scary warnings over the Korean test seem to have had little impact on Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

The North Korean test appears to have been a nuclear detonation, but was fairly small by traditional standards, and possibly a failure, federal and private analysts say.

A 2006 North Korean test of a long-range missile, in 2006, ended in failure seconds after the rocket left the launching pad.

"Nonetheless, the yield of a North Korean test of a one-stage thermonuclear device would also be expected to have been larger than reported so far," he concluded.

But they planned to do nothing if it were headed toward open water, even if it went over Japan, as one previous North Korean test did.