I realize it is a little too late for more monster tales, but an Italian news team has evidently discovered monsters dwelling in Paekdu-san’s lake. The video can be seen here.
Considering that many of China’s lakes are claimed to be inhabited by monster _____ (fill in the blank) it shouldn’t be surprising that Paekdu-san is also filled with great creatures.
These creatures, if they are left-over from the age of dinosaurs, will truly become extinct once it gets out that their bones and blood are good for reviving a man’s stamina.
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What concerns me more is that the clip is titled “China lake monster”. This lake is shared by both North Korea and China, and to go further, greater portion of the lake belongs to North Korea, not China.
Cydevil, who told you that? In all the maps I’ve seen The North Korean border goes up to the lake and follows the edge around for about 1/3 - 1/2 of the lake and retreats back down the mountain. At no point does the border even cross the water.
ok, naver maps agrees with cydevil… google earth disagrees with us both, but asserts the border never crosses the water
I always wondered why it was 50-50…
Type in 백두산 지도 on any Korean search engine, use 이미지..for pics.
Or search Changbaishan in English.
If you really want to test where the border is…go there an try and walking around the ridge…see how far you’ll get before being taken hostage.
You might be lucky enough to get a free trip to Pyongyang.
Having been there…and travelling with Korean and Chinese maps..the border crosses 천지 from the North East and splits the lake into two near equal parts.
I mean, come on, just as the South Korean government talks about allowing its citizens to visit Beakdusan. That is so staged.
You can tell in the last few seconds, when the camera zooms in to one of the ‘dots’ that it’s someone in the water doing the breaststroke.
I have a decade-old DPRK tourism-brochure of Baekdu-san that shows NK possessing exactly a 1/4 wedge (90 degree angle) of it… and looking at where the border lies on the regional maps, that makes perfect sense, it is in a “corner”… So what “Baek du boy” posts there contradicts this, and is interesting.
The border definately crosses the lake, although exactly how much of it is anyone’s guess. I was told that the border got changed slightly to allow China access to a side of it as a sort of thankyou guesture to the Chinese after the Korean War, but I may be wrong.
Baekdu boy, did you go there from the North Korean side or the Chinese side?
I was in the DPRK, but paekdu san wasn’t on the itinery. I considered going there from Dandong after I left, but I ended up figuring out that it would take me several days, and that the view from the Chinese side wasn’t as good as the DPRK view anyway, so I didn’t do it. One day…
BTW the heavenly lake monster has been around for a while.
Would the present lake border have been finalized as part of the 1962 border treaty between North Korea and China? As for the monster, I read somewhere that it might be a bear. Could be a person, but that would be one hell of a cold swim…
#9,
Yes and North Korea actually gained some territory in that agreement. North Korea has since held possession of 60% of the mountain and lake. Look it up on Google Earth. I was showing Google Earth to my brother-in-law when I zoomed in on the mountain. He saw the border and started protesting that Baekdu was only in Korea territory. I had to explain to him about the treaty.
A couple of problems with this monster idea. First off, how did
the monster get up there? The lake formed about 1,000 years ago, well after the prehistoric creature died off. Secondly, Baekdusan had a major
eruption during the Chosun dynasty, which would have killed off any
thing living in the lake. And, the temperature of the lake is way
too cold for the type of ancient dinasaur which allegedly lives there.
Added to the fact that there isn’t enough fish in the lake to sustain
the creature.
So, I’m skeptical. Maybe it’s something else - a secret North Korean alpine submarine?
Considering how popular Baekdusan is, maybe the North should try to
capture some of the tourist market, not literally of course. They’d
probably make alot more money than they do through Kumgansan.
Ist conclusion should be maybe otters swimming in some kind of loose formation or North Koreans making a break for it by swimming across the lake.
But those blurry dots indicating some type of lake monster? Com’on…
Everyone knows the physical laws of the universe are suspended in Korea.
If you can have fan death, then you can have Korean Godzilla-esque prehistoric monsters in Baekdusan.
Random Guy….
Remember, that lake monster is in a “Chinese” lake and being documented by an “Italian” film crew…
Koreans, as of yet, are not involved yet…
Clearly it’s a case of Mother Nature at her teleological best, not otters, not a monster of prehistoric yore that survives and is found in a lake; but, rather, a case of hanguk-saram evolution, as predicted in the scientific sketchings of one racist inter-nerd, here:
http://img233.imageshack.us/im.....sk7la5.jpg
#8 I went there from China last year. Not on a group tour mind you.
The group tours there are so annoying and are basically a stop-go photo opps.
I did say two “near equal parts” as I have not seen official government maps from China or the DPRK.
Like I said…if anyone wants to do some field work on this discussion and walk around ridge then let me know how far you get.
I think a Baekdusan lake monster would be a good movie premise, at least, a lot better than those used for “D-Wars” and the Han River “Monster” movie. By the way, I liked the Han River monster movie, even though the premise was silly.
It would be interesting to see a movie with the North Korean army taking on the Baekdusan monster. One possible ending could be that the North Koreans are just on the verge of destruction when Kim Jong-il rides up on his white horse and slays the monster. The movie would end with a big mass game celebration and a teary-eyed crowd franticly cheering “The Dear Leader.” That would be a guaranteed blockbuster.
Would it also entail this monster having an insatiable appetite for metal and eventually the peasants revolting to defeat it? Hummm… who would Kim Jong Il have to kidnap this time to direct it?
i was shocked and appalled to see that it took nearly a dozen posts before anyone commented on the fact that there are real live monsters swimming in a volcanic lake!! you would almost stop and wonder if this was turning into dave’s esl cafe.
real live monsters! not just dots! monsters! probably spawned from nucleur fallout resulting from so much testing.