If you needed further proof that North Korea and its fearless supreme boy leader Kim Jong-un are playing out a real life, non-cartoon version of Pinky & The Brain in their cordoned-off, sheltered area of the world, well, we have it for you. Fresh and piping hot, too.

Get this: they now say they can rid Mother Earth of America once and for all (no, seriously, they said this).

From the Associated Press:

North Korea’s U.N. mission claimed Wednesday that its successful nuclear bomb test showed that it could now “wipe out” the United States, as the U.N. Security Council grappled with a response to the underground blast.

It said North Korean scientists and technicians “are in high spirit to detonate H-bombs … capable of wiping out the whole territory of the U.S. all at once as it persistently moves to stifle the DPRK.”

Prior in the week we reported on the blog that many, many officials were skeptical about the Asian totalitarian dictatorship and its claim that it actually set off a hydrogen bomb.

One of the foremost experts on the North Korean nuclear arsenal, former Los Alamos National Laboratory director Siegfried Hecker, said that while he agrees with the notion that what Kim and company tested wasn’t a traditional “H-bomb”, it was progress, and evidence that they’re getting slicker and shrewder with their overall “bomb design”.

“At this point, what makes their nuclear arsenal more dangerous is not so much explosive power of the bomb, but its size, weight and the ability to deliver it with missiles.”