North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is perhaps the most closed state on the planet. Therefore, quite absurd news about life in this country regularly appear in the world media, which often have nothing to do with real situation things. And today we will talk about 5 funniest fakes about North Korea, which the whole world considered to be true.
North Korean astronaut lands on the sun
The latest on at the moment A popular canard about North Korea is the story that the news about the landing of the first North Korean cosmonaut on the Sun was reported in all media in the DPRK.
North Korean news agencies allegedly told the gullible residents of the country about the immortal feat of a seventeen-year-old astronaut named Hung Il Hong, who was the first person to land on the Sun and then return to Earth. In total, his flight lasted eighteen hours.
The news also says that Hung Il Hong's landing on the Sun took place at night so that the young astronaut would not suffer from ultra-high temperatures on the star closest to Earth. Now the hero of the Korean nation will receive a ceremonial reception from the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
Victory of the DPRK team in the World Cup in Brazil
And in the summer of 2014, media outlets around the world distributed news clips allegedly shown on the central television channel of North Korea about the success of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea team at the World Cup. At the same time, she herself national team The DPRK did not participate in the real tournament at all.
However, the presenters of these news videos told the residents of the DPRK about the unprecedented successes of their native team. At the stage group stage she beat the teams of Japan, the United States of America and China to no-nonsense with a big score, defeated Portugal (7-0) in the eighth final, won 2:1 against Germany in the quarter-finals, and “compatriots” from Germany in the semi-finals. South Korea, and in the final she “outraged” the hosts of the tournament, the Brazilians, beating them with a score of 8:1.
The announcers' stories in these news stories were confirmed by cutting footage taken from various broadcasts sports competitions, in which North Korean football players took part, and the image of the ceremonial celebration sports heroes in the central square of Pyongyang was taken from the official video of the celebration of one of the public holidays of the DPRK.
People from different countries Those who watched these fake videos and laughed at the gullibility of simple-minded North Koreans had no idea that the “announcer” from the main DPRK TV channel for some reason spoke with a southern pronunciation.
Repression against the DPRK national football team after failure at the World Cup in South Africa
But at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held in South Africa, the North Korean team actually took part. However, her performance there cannot be called successful - the team lost all three games. Moreover, after a relatively “good” result in the match with Brazil (loss 1:2), the DPRK football players lost to Portugal in front of tens of millions of residents of their country (the first live international sports broadcast in the history of North Korea) with a score of 0:7.
As a result, a few weeks after the end of the tournament in South Africa several major world media reported on tragic fate North Korean football players who returned to their homeland. The news said that the sports leadership had seriously obstructed the losers, and the authorities generally sent the head coach and several key players to wash away their shame with fruitful work in correctional camps.
The worried world community even put pressure on FIFA so that Joseph Blatter made an official request to the authorities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea regarding the fate of the players and coach. True, they answered that there were no reprisals on their part and there could not be any.
Ghost village on the border with South Korea
The world media generally loves to demonize the DPRK. For example, many sources enthusiastically talk about a settlement called Kijeong-dong - a ghost village.Kijongdong is one of two settlements of the “northerners” that can be directly seen from the territory of the Republic of Korea. We are talking about an exemplary village of several dozen neat buildings under the same blue and pink tiles. And on the hill closest to the settlement there is a 160-meter flagpole with a giant banner of the DPRK.
In this locality, according to official information from the DPRK, there is an agricultural collective farm, a hospital, two schools and kindergarten. But what there really isn’t there are permanent residents. At least, that's what people who regularly observe the village of Kijeongdong from the other side of the border say.
Eyewitnesses say that Kijeong-dong is a “Potemkin village”, the main purpose of which is to demonstrate to the “capitalist brothers” the advantages of life in communist North Korea.
On the streets of Kijeong-dong you can only see individual soldiers and women washing windows; there is no other residential activity there. In the evenings, the windows in the village light up, but always at the same time in the same houses. And bravura patriotic marches sound from loudspeakers on the streets of the village throughout the entire district for twenty hours every day.
The terrible death of uncle Kim Jong-un
The emergence of his son Kim Jong-un at the helm of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after the death of Kim Jong Il was initially perceived by the world community as a benefit for this country. Everyone expected that the young man, who was educated in Switzerland, would make his state more open to the world, carry out market reforms in it and gradually get rid of repression of dissidents. However, these hopes were extinguished.It turned out that Kim Jong-un is a worthy successor to his family’s legacy. And that on the way to sole power he will not be stopped not only by the death of ordinary citizens of the DPRK, but even by the death of his own uncle named Jang Song Thaek.
Jang Song Thaek was considered the real leader of North Korea, the “eminence grise” under a young and inexperienced top leader, the center of decision-making in the country. However, two years after Kim Jong-un came to power, the latter gave the order to remove his uncle from decision-making, depriving him of all positions, arresting him, and then executing him. At the same time, there are rumors that all members of his family, including babies, were also destroyed.
But much more terrible rumors are circulating about the fate of Chan Song Thaek himself. In December 2013, even the largest and most authoritative world media reported that this former “gray eminence” of the DPRK was not shot, as is customary in relation to “enemies of the people,” but fed alive to hungry dogs. The dogs were allegedly not fed on purpose for a long time, and then released into the field along with the tied up Chan Song Thaek, after which he died in terrible agony.
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Let's reveal a little secret to our readers. Of these five fake news stories purporting to be about life in North Korea, one is actually true. And you yourself have to decide which one. We deliberately resorted to such deception in order to show readers that life in the DPRK is indeed very paradoxical, and therefore any seemingly absurd news about this country may, in fact, turn out to be reality. And people regularly appear who abuse this.
Don't believe me? But in vain. As the DPRK central channel reported, a 17-year-old Korean astronaut flew to the Sun and back in 36 hours Read more
North Korean media claim that a 17-year-old DPRK astronaut not only successfully landed on the Sun, but also returned back safe and sound.
This extremely ridiculous statement was aired on the central channel. North Korean media claim that the day before their 17-year-old astronaut successfully landed on the Sun, in addition, he managed to return back unharmed. Tweaktown reports this, referring to the broadcast of the central channel. It is noted that Hung Il Hong set out on his journey late at night to protect himself from the harmful effects of high temperatures. It took the 17-year-old astronaut 36 hours to do everything, but now Hung Il Hong has returned home, where he was greeted as a hero. It is also reported that the “first man in the sun” will receive a reception from the head of the DPRK himself, Kim Jong-un.
The temperature on the star is about 5726 degrees Celsius and at night its glow does not weaken at all, and its distance from our planet is 149 million 600 thousand kilometers. Based on this, it can be assumed that the teenager “flew” to the Sun under the influence of psychotropic substances or with the help of journalists, who probably took a report from him directly from the fiery surface.
Citizens of the DPRK were informed that Hung Il Hong was able to successfully land on the surface of the star. The young man made his journey in the dead of night to escape the effects of high temperature. This statement was made on air on the central channel.
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According to North Korean media, the flight lasted 18 hours in total. At the moment, the astronaut has already returned home, where he was greeted with honors - like a hero. Now young Hung Il Hong awaits a reception with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, reports the publication "Science of the XXI Century".
This message shocked all scientists except North Korean ones. The fact is that the distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 150 million kilometers, and the temperature of the star exceeds 5.7 thousand degrees Celsius. Scientists around the world claim that such a flight is impossible, but in the DPRK they think differently.
Let us note that the DPRK has its own view on many things. Not long ago, North Korean television attended the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil. In fact, the DPRK national team did not even qualify for the World Cup playoffs. According to a report from a North Korean channel, football players in final match In the group stage they beat the Chinese with a score of 2:0, and before that they defeated the national teams of Japan (7:0) and the USA (4:0). The DPRK team's opponent in the playoffs is the Portuguese team.
In 2010, in South Africa, the DPRK team failed to qualify from the group. At the end of the tournament, a number of foreign media reported that the players of the North Korean national team received a reprimand from the DPRK government, and head coach Kim Jong Hoon's team was sent to correctional labor. FIFA sent a letter to the North Korean Football Federation asking for clarification on whether this information was true, but received no response.
North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is perhaps the most closed state on the planet. Therefore, quite absurd news about life in this country regularly appear in the world media, which often have nothing to do with the real state of affairs.
North Korean astronaut lands on the sun
The most recent popular canard about North Korea at the moment is the story that the news about the landing of the first North Korean cosmonaut on the Sun was reported in all media in the DPRK. North Korean astronaut landed on the Sun North Korean news agencies allegedly told the gullible residents of the country about the immortal feat of a seventeen-year-old astronaut named Hung Il Hong, who was the first person to land on the Sun and then return to Earth. In total, his flight lasted eighteen hours.
North Korean astronaut lands on the Sun The news also says that Hung Il Hong's landing on the Sun took place at night so that the young astronaut would not suffer from ultra-high temperatures on the star closest to Earth. Now the hero of the Korean nation will receive a ceremonial reception from the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
Victory of the DPRK team in the World Cup in Brazil
And in the summer of 2014, media outlets around the world distributed news clips allegedly shown on the central television channel of North Korea about the success of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea team at the World Cup. At the same time, the DPRK national team itself did not participate in the real tournament at all.
National football team of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea However, the hosts of these news videos told the residents of the DPRK about the unprecedented successes of their native team. At the group stage, it beat the teams of Japan, the United States of America and China to no-nonsense with a big score, defeated Portugal (7-0) in the eighth final, won 2:1 against Germany in the quarter-finals, and “compatriots” from Germany in the semi-finals. South Korea, and in the finals “outraged” the hosts of the tournament, the Brazilians, beating them with a score of 8:1.
Victories of the DPRK national team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The announcers' stories in these news were confirmed by cutting of footage taken from various broadcasts of sports competitions in which North Korean football players took part, and the image of the ceremonial honoring of sports heroes in the central square of Pyongyang was taken from the official video of the celebration one of the public holidays of the DPRK.
Repression against the DPRK national football team after failure at the World Cup in South Africa
But at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, held in South Africa, the North Korean team actually took part. However, her performance there cannot be called successful - the team lost all three games. Moreover, after a relatively “good” result in the match with Brazil (loss 1:2), the DPRK football players lost to Portugal in front of tens of millions of residents of their country (the first live international sports broadcast in the history of North Korea) with a score of 0:7.
The DPRK national team at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa As a result, a few weeks after the end of the tournament in South Africa, several major world media outlets reported on the tragic fate of North Korean football players who returned to their homeland. The news said that the sports leadership had seriously obstructed the losers, and the authorities generally sent the head coach and several key players to wash away their shame with fruitful work in correctional camps.
The coach of the DPRK national football team, who was allegedly repressed. The worried world community even put pressure on FIFA so that Joseph Blatter made an official request to the authorities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea regarding the fate of the players and coach. True, they answered that there were no reprisals on their part and there could not be any.
Military parade in North Korea
Ghost village on the border with South Korea
The world media generally loves to demonize the DPRK. For example, many sources enthusiastically talk about a settlement called Kijeongdong, a ghost village on the border between North Korea and South Korea. Kijongdong is one of two settlements of the “northerners” that can be directly seen from the territory of the Republic of Korea. We are talking about an exemplary village of several dozen neat buildings under the same blue and pink tiles. And on the hill closest to the settlement there is a 160-meter flagpole with a giant banner of the DPRK.
A giant DPRK flag on the territory of the ghost village of Kijeongdong. In this settlement, according to official information from the DPRK, there is an agricultural collective farm, a hospital, two schools and a kindergarten. But what there really isn’t there are permanent residents. At least, that's what people who regularly observe the village of Kijeongdong from the other side of the border say. Eyewitnesses say that Kijeong-dong is a “Potemkin village”, the main purpose of which is to demonstrate to the “capitalist brothers” the advantages of life in communist North Korea. Kijongdong - Potemkin Village on the border of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea On the streets of Kijongdong you can only see individual soldiers and women washing windows, there is no other residential activity there. In the evenings, the windows in the village light up, but always at the same time in the same houses. And bravura patriotic marches sound from loudspeakers on the streets of the village throughout the entire district for twenty hours every day.
The terrible death of uncle Kim Jong-un
The emergence of his son Kim Jong-un at the helm of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after the death of Kim Jong Il was initially perceived by the world community as a benefit for this country. Everyone expected that the young man, who was educated in Switzerland, would make his state more open to the world, carry out market reforms in it and gradually get rid of repression of dissidents. However, these hopes were extinguished. It turned out that Kim Jong-un is a worthy successor to his family’s legacy. And that on the way to sole power he will not be stopped not only by the death of ordinary citizens of the DPRK, but even by the death of his own uncle named Jang Song Thaek.
Jang Song Thaek and Kim Jong Un at the height of the power of Uncle Great Leader Jang Song Thaek were considered the real leader of North Korea, the “eminence grise” under a young and inexperienced top leader, the center of decision-making in the country. However, two years after Kim Jong-un came to power, the latter gave the order to remove his uncle from decision-making, depriving him of all positions, arresting him, and then executing him. At the same time, there are rumors that all members of his family, including babies, were also destroyed.
Jang Song Taek's arrest in live Central Television of the DPRK But much more terrible rumors are circulating about the fate of Jang Song Thaek himself. In December 2013, even the largest and most authoritative world media reported that this former “gray eminence” of the DPRK was not shot, as is customary in relation to “enemies of the people,” but was fed alive to hungry dogs. The dogs were allegedly not fed on purpose for a long time, and then released into the field along with the tied up Chan Song Thaek, after which he died in terrible agony. *** Let's tell our readers a little secret. Of these five fake news stories purporting to be about life in North Korea, one is actually true. And you yourself have to decide which one. We deliberately resorted to such deception in order to show readers that life in the DPRK is indeed very paradoxical, and therefore any seemingly absurd news about this country may, in fact, turn out to be reality. And people regularly appear who abuse this.
