A few years ago, Russian media wrote about an incredible event: supposedly the DPRK reported that her astronaut had successfully landed in the sun, and then returned home. We checked whether the official bodies of North Korea really made such statements.

The most widespread history in November 2014. Usually she had approximately the following:

“On the live air of the North Korean television channel, he said that a 17-year-old cosmonaut from the DPRK named Hung Hong flew out in the sun on a specially designed missile ship at 3 a.m., reached his destination in four hours and returned home by the evening. According to the host, the journey took place at night to save the pilot from the destructive temperature of the star, and the whole mission took about 18 hours. Upon the arrival of the astronaut, Kim Jong -un himself met, to whom the hero gave samples of solar spots. ”

For example, such texts can be found on resources such as "Komsomolskaya Pravda" And "Days.ru". About flight even told Ivan Urgant in his evening show, and Vladimir Solovyov Shared The plot is on Twitter. The story of landing in the sun can be found after a few years - it has long been became a meme.

There is no need to discuss the impossibility and absurdity of such a cosmic achievement due to the temperature of the sun and the distance between the Earth and the main star of our Galaxy for us, because the DPRK did not declare anything like this-this is just satirical news. Moreover, the media made additional errors.

So, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported that the flight allegedly took place on November 7, and referred to the site Tweaktown, where it really was written about the statement of the North Korean Canal, only the news there was published on January 22.

And on Tweaktown, the Irish resource is indicated as the source Waterford Whispers Newsin the description of which notedthat this is a satirical site with fictional stories.

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