According to state news agency KCNA, North Korea will set its clock back by 30 minutes to “Pyongyang time” on August. 15.
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The statement went on to observe that the parliamentary decree regarding a new time zone showed “the unshakeable faith and will of the service personnel and people on the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation”.
Some might say that a trip to North Korea is like stepping back in time.
In fact, prior to Japanese rule, Korea was already at GMT 8:30.
Keep in mind that standard time in Korea had been running at GMT+8:30, but was changed after the occupation to Japan standard time. He told CNN resetting the time zone is part of regaining South Korea’s sovereignty and getting rid of the remaining vestiges of Japanese imperialism.
“North Korean employees are young and are fast learners, and we use materials from the South. So the quality is just as good as products of South Korean brands, at relatively lower prices”, said shop vice president Lee Joung-duk.
The country will establish its own time zone next week by setting its clocks back by 30 minutes to “Pyongyang time”, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Jeong, whose ministry deals with issues surrounding a potential unification of the Koreas, expected the North’s time change to create only minor communication problems, notably at the inter-Korean industrial park in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, where South Korean managers oversee North Korean workers.
The summit talks spawned a flurry of cooperation projects, but majority have been put on hold since conservatives took power in Seoul in 2008, and ended big aid shipments to North Korea.
North Korea also operates on its own calendar, beginning 104 years ago with the 1912 birth of its first leader Kim Illinois Sung.
-GREAT LEAP BACKWARD: China, a vast nation stretching nearly 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) from one end to the other, used to have five time zones.
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-15 MINUTES OF FAME: In 1956 Nepal moved to GMT +5:45 to mark the time the sun passes over a famous mountain, becoming one of only three places to have the quarter-hour offset. Samoa changed their zone in 2011, jumping across the global dateline to improve ties with Australia.
