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North Korea reports "Lair of King Tongmyong's Unicorn Reconfirmed in DPRK"

Xeni Jardin at 8:27 am Fri, Nov 30, 2012

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Seems legit.

(via @chicoharlan, thanks, @klustout)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • kartwaffles

    Unicorn, or rainicorn?
    말도 안 돼!

  • Ashen Victor

    Yeah… sure dude.
    I totally believe you.
    You have a shiny future on the historic research field!

  • James Mason

    Is “Unicorn Lair” written in Korean or English?

  • http://www.facebook.com/jrrennie Jake Rennie

    There could be actual unicorns discovered in North Korea, and no one would believe them when they tried to tell the world about them. It’d be a wizard’s paradise. They could do whatever they want, reveal their existence to muggles and turn them into goats or whatever, and their existence would never be believed by the rest of the world.

  • http://www.disoriented.net/ angusm

    Can we have a Kim Jong Un chaser, please?

    • http://openid.anonymity.com/0gr40 King Jong-un

      Here you go, angusm. Hope this is what you hadn in mind: http://imgur.com/lE4kM 

  • oasisob1

    What will Banksy do next?

  • Navin_Johnson

    The worst part of this is that they say “history book” instead of mythology. The rest is no different than any of the endless real Western historical sites that have myths associated with them.

  • http://twitter.com/fossilfuels Funk Daddy

    They spelled “Liar” wrong.

  • http://twitter.com/michaelsayyes michael b

    Congrats to N. Korea for winning for winning the internet for the day.

  • Ryan Lenethen

    Meh. Haven’t a bunch of crazies from various nationalities also found Noah’s Arc, Turin Shroud, Arc of the Covenent loacation, the cave where zombie jebus was born, etc ad nausem?

    One persons delusions are anothers beliefs. Someone prove to me that any of those above or just about anything assoicated with that sort of bunk is any more provable, notable, or realistic than horses with a horn on its head. Heck Narwhales are the unicorns of the sea! If one mammal can do it, logically why not another? Dawin bitches! :)

    • Navin_Johnson

       ”Arc of the Covenent”

      Oh the Christian Ethiopians have it.*

      *they just won’t let anybody but the lifelong appointed caretaker have a peek…..

  • Jonathan Badger

    You have to understand how the North Koreans view King Tongmyong (who, much like King Arthur in the West, may only be vaguely related to an actual historical figure). When a royal tomb was discovered in Pyongyang a couple of decades ago they first concluded that it had to have been the tomb of Tongmyong and then razed the tomb because it wasn’t impressive enough and constructed a new, appropriately glorious tomb for the heroic monarch.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      You have to understand how the North Koreans view King Tongmyong reality. FTFY

  • http://www.lightning-rose.com/ LightningRose

    Are you sure this isn’t revenge for China’s falling for the recent Onion article naming Kim Jong-Un  the sexiest man alive?

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/kim-jongun-named-the-onions-sexiest-man-alive-for,30379/
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2239298/The-Onion-fools-Chinese-newspaper-Kim-Jong-sexiest-man-alive-headline.html

  • webstu

    North Korean “news” writers must laugh themselves silly on a daily basis.

    Not even the Weekly World News had this much fun.

    • benher

      I think they sweat daily as they worry whether or not their cute chubby leader will enjoy their unicorn reports.