North Korea have threatened to wipe Manhattan off the map on Sunday, saying they are capable of sending a hydrogen bomb on a ballistic missile directly to New York. “Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union,” DPRK Today, a North Korean state-run outlet reported on Sunday. “If this H-bomb were to be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile and fall on Manhattan in New York City, all the people there would be killed immediately and the city would burn down to ashes,” Pyongyang boasted, referencing nuclear scientist Cho Hyong Il as the source of their claims. Washingtonpost.com reports: North Korea’s newly developed hydrogen bomb “surpasses our imagination,” Cho is quoted as saying, because it is many times as powerful as anything the Soviet Union had. “The H-bomb developed by the Soviet Union in the past was able to smash windows of buildings 1,000 kms away and the heat was strong enough to cause third-degree burns 100 kms away,” the report continued. (A thousand kilometers is about 625 miles; 100 kilometers, 62.5 miles.) Kim in January ordered North Korea’s fourth nuclear test and claimed that it was a hydrogen bomb, not a simple atomic one. [...]