{"id":7995,"date":"2026-04-16T08:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7995"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:25:11","slug":"its-official-loch-ness-is-in-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/its-official-loch-ness-is-in-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official: Loch Ness is In North Korea!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Locals and visitors alike were stunned to learn that Loch Ness and her famous monster are not in Scotland, they are actually in North Korea and it is official!<\/p><div id=\"lochn-1671150611\" class=\"lochn-content lochn-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3003812232025940\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3003812232025940\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25975394.scottish-government-uses-north-korea-border-photo-highland-bus-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The National newspaper.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/northkorea.jpg\" alt=\"Loch Ness, NorthKorea\" class=\"wp-image-7997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/northkorea.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/northkorea-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Loch Ness, North Korea (Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@mike_bravo_ch?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Bravo<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/white-concrete-monument-under-blue-sky-during-daytime-xTEagVRu_1U?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Unsplash<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locals and visitors alike were stunned to learn that Loch Ness and her famous monster are not in Scotland, they are actually in North Korea and it is official! Read more here: The National newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,182,490,202,231,233,275,489,320,332,333,386],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cryptozoology","tag-highlands","tag-host","tag-inverness","tag-loch-ness","tag-loch-ness-monster","tag-nessie","tag-north-korea","tag-research","tag-scotland","tag-scottish","tag-tourism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8000,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lochnessmonster.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}