Whatever its eventual yield, Sunday's test was "a staged thermonuclear weapon" that represents a significant advance in Pyongyang's weapons programme, said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
Going by that frequency, there will be 30 wrong decisions in a four-test series, decisions that will surely influence its eventual outcome," the author argues.
It's a big question mark right now, and the next big test will be what happens when Sony makes its eventual announcement.
Nevertheless, the test offers more evidence that North Korea is moving closer to its eventual goal of possessing a nuclear-tipped missile that could strike the US mainland.
There's no avoiding its eventual demise.
He is sanguine about its eventual success.
He has staked his beleaguered government on its eventual success.
Perhaps only its eventual disappearance will settle the debate.
Its eventual decision could be appealed to the United States Supreme Court.
Its eventual replacement, the Liberty, never gained the same respect.
