North Korean state media on Monday claimed that its hydrogen bomb is advanced enough to carry out a strike on New York City and wipe out the entire populace of the metropolis.

Pyongyang also claimed that its bomb power exceeds the explosive radius of the most powerful bomb in history, the Tsar Bomba, also known as the “King of Bombs.”

The Soviet Tsar Bombawas a 50-megaton device, or 2,800 times more powerful than the Little Boy bomb used at Hiroshima. Though Tsar Bomba, detonated in October 1961, was not mentioned by name, the North Korean description of the weapon matches