N. Korea gave U.S. less than an hour's notice of test
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea gave the United States less than an hour's notice of a nuclear test it carried out on Monday, a U.S. official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said North Korea did not make any demands when it provided the warning of the test.
North Korea conducted a second and far more powerful nuclear test on Monday than its first such test in 2006, triggering an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on the hermit state's defiant act.[nSEO141656]
Financial markets wobbled only briefly on the news.
"We got less than an hour's warning on this thing," said the U.S. official, saying the message was conveyed through the "New York channel," a reference to contacts between North Korea diplomats at the United Nations and U.S. officials.
"They made no demands," the U.S. official said.
(Reporting by Arshad Mohammed; editing by Bill Trott)
