North Korea: H-Bomb Could Turn Manhattan to 'Ashes'
North Korea says it could wipe out Manhattan, New York, with a hydrogen bomb mounted on a ballistic missile.
It warns the weapon is much bigger than the one built by the Soviet Union, reports.
"Our hydrogen bomb is much bigger than the one developed by the Soviet Union," The Washington Post quoted DPRK Today, a state-run outlet.
"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," the report said.
Although North Korea's missiles can reach the West Coast of the United States, there hasn't been reason to believe they could go as far as New York.
In addition, many experts question the North's claim it has built a hydrogen bomb.
But others, like Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia nonproliferation program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey however, warn against dismissing the threat.
"It does not look like U.S. devices, to be sure, but it is hard to know if aspects of the model are truly implausible or simply that North Korean nuclear weapons look different than their Soviet and American cousins," he said. "The size, however, is consistent with my expectations for North Korea."
