North Korean Scientists Confirm That Unicorns Are Real

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Major Tom said:
I can't see the same emphasis you do. The word legend is used only once throughout the whole piece, the rest of it sounds like they consider the legend to be true, and that Pyongyang is the centre of that legend. Maybe the report hasn't been edited well enough to reflect what they think about the existence of unicorns, and they don't actually think it was real, but they way the article reads to me suggests they do.

This is probably an agree to disagree issue.
It's not about emphasis. I probably should have used bold instead, it was just meant to make the word easy to see. They use the word legend in reference to the guy who rode on a unicorn. I can see no other interpretation that isn't specifically looking to make NK seem they're away with the fairies, rather than run of the mill paranoid despots.

You are right though, it has not been edited well, and it's translated from Korean, you can see the clumsy use of English throughout.

Finally yes, without more to go than translated snippets of a vague online news report I doubt either of us will bring the other round to their POV. I am always very sceptical of claims based on things like that especially when they are as ludicrous as these and poke fun at another nation. Bullshit like "Australia bans swearing" (I'm sure you remember that), sensationalist headlines with just enough vague details to make it seem possible with a cursory skim (especially if it panders to pre existing ideas people have about the subject) but once you read it properly you realise what a load of crap it is.
 

Icehearted

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Of course they're real, what else do you think the glorious leader rides, eats, and insulates his home with?


elilupe said:
Andy Chalk said:
Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam
I found a typo. That cannot be a real word...
Maybe the person writing it was having a stroke or an orgasm at the time.
 

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Not that anyone cares, but did you know that the reason that Unicorn horns are often depicted like they are on the front page [http://psauburnchick12.deviantart.com/art/Wooden-Unicorn-Horn-PNG-100653600] is because back in the day people would take narwhal horns [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CIRBn1Vfd2w/TSqVqgvSRgI/AAAAAAAAAdo/uvht91Dltm0/s1600/CA02998+-+Narwhal%252C+Tusk.JPG] (actually tusks) and add them to horse skeletons to fake unicorns and propagate the myth.
 

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Seems legit, I mean what reason could they possibly have for fabricating such a tale?
 

xdiesp

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You guys miss another point in this: according to the Greek myth, there was only one unicorn.
 

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Kopikatsu said:
Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam?

Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam?

How the hell do you even pronounce that? It looks like someone let the cat walk across their keyboard.
If I recall correctly:

Shin joong dong gook yo ji soong nahm

Both North and South Korea seem to have a mutual aversion to spaces, and the letter "h". The English translation would be practically a sentence.
 

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Once more, it is proven that North Korea is best Korea. Unless the South finds either scientific proof for the existence of dragons or becomes able to mass produce jetpacks for civilian use, they don't hold a candle to the North.
 

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ZehMadScientist said:
Once more, it is proven that North Korea is best Korea. Unless the South finds either scientific proof for the existence of dragons or becomes able to mass produce jetpacks for civilian use, they don't hold a candle to the North.
Well, the South are already working on this -


Does this count? X3
 

blackrave

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pfff
What your puny unicorn remains are when compared with northern dragons?
We don't even need to prove that scandinavian and northern slavic tribes used dragons as warbeasts
Because EVERYONE knows it (why to waste time and finances on commonly known fact?)
Even more- historians are pretty sure that after Divide (event when dragons fought their freedom back) dragons migrated to Arctica, where they are living at this same moment (as for food question- biologists are pretty sure they eat fish and wales, since dragons are amphibious)
So yeah, try to beat that N-Korea!
 

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CardinalPiggles said:
Haha! That's funny.

I might go to Egypt and carve 'Tutankhamun woz ere' into one of their pyramids.
I was going say something similar, because I almost couldn't stop laughing when they said that the proof was an "ancient" sign that said "Unicorn Lair".

Lair just doesn't sound like the right word anyway. Lair makes me think of evil and vicious things, super villains have lairs.

So I'm wondering if Unicorns weren't the nice mythical beasts we thought the were.

Now, I'm off to go find a cave and carve into the entrance wall "Cave of the Leprechauns", and claim that Leprechauns originated in the US Midwest instead of Ireland.
 

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For anyone who's interested, this here is a talk Christopher Hitchens gave, which describes his experiences with totalitarian regimes, including North Korea.

The place is a total horror show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFWFYDae2P8
You'll need to look around a bit though. There's a lot of stuff in there, and I lost the link to the video that has only that talk.
 

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DVS BSTrD said:
So THAT's why everything is so grey and bleak over in North Korea: they're in the Twilight Zone!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

OT: Sinjungdonggukyojisungnam...



wat ._.
 

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The North Koreans have released more information about the unicorn. His name is Charlie and he's very grumpy.