The Mythical Animal Actually Found By North Korean Archaeologists

The Mythical Animal Actually Found By North Korean Archaeologists


The world got it all wrong, so you can all stop laughing now. The North Korean archaeologists didn’t find a magic unicorn lair belonging to an ancient Emperor in Pyongyang. Don’t be stupid! No, they actually found the animal you are seeing above.

Seriously, that’s what they say they found. They claim the unicorn was a “mistranslation”.

The IBI Times is reporting that the reports on the magic unicorn were based on a bad translation of the original study. The reality is that the unicorn lair was actually the nest of a “beast with a dragon’s head, a deer’s body, the tail of a cow, hooves and a mane”.

I put together the illustration above so you can clearly picture this amazing beast. It’s definitely not a unicorn.

According to the Kim Jong-Un propaganda machine, the finding of this lair “proves that Pyongyang was [the] capital city of Ancient Korea as well as [the] Koguryo Kingdom”, which was governed by King Tongmyong. This means that they are actually own Korea. You know, birth rights and all that.

The official Korean News says that King Tongmyong was the founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (277BC to 668AD). The archaeologists say the unicorn’s lair “is located 200 metres from the Yongmyong Temple in Moran Hill in Pyongyang City. A rectangular rock carved with [the] words Unicorn Lair stands in front of the lair. The carved words are believed to date back to the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392).”

Perhaps they can sell this beast to some crazy dude and use the money to feed the people starving in that country.


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