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North Korea may be a unique nation, but its abrupt decision to change its time zone is not without parallel. There's no international body that regulates time zones: If you're a sovereign state ...
North Korea's new act of aggression: A time change 03:13. SEOUL, South Korea-- North Korea said Friday it will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back its current standard time by 30 ...
On Aug. 15, 2015, North Koreans put their clocks back half an hour to establish their own time zone, “Pyongyang time.” Less than three years later, the country put their clocks forward … ...
The time zone that North Korea plans to use is what a single Korea adopted in 1908, though the peninsula came under the same Japanese zone in 1912, two years after Tokyo’s colonial occupation began.
North Korea is its own world in many ways. Now, it is getting its own time zone to match. State news agency, KCNA, has announced that North Korea will set its clocks back by 30 minutes to ...
As of Aug. 15, according to the country's official news agency KCNA, North Korea will be in a new time zone to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War II.
South Korea returned to the older time zone in 1954 but shifted to the Japanese time zone in 1961, in part due to concerns about logistics for U.S. troops stationed in Japan.
North Korea is switching to its own time zone, with clocks set to be put back by 30 minutes on 15 August. The move will see North Korea move off the same time zone as South Korea and Japan, which ...
North Korea readjusted its time zone to match South Korea's on Saturday and described the change as an early step toward making the longtime rivals “become one” following a landmark summit.
N orth Korea’s state media is reporting that on Aug. 15 the country will abandon the time zone it shares with Japan and South Korea and create its own.. Pyongyang Standard Time, as it were, will ...
North Korea readjusted its time zone to match South Korea’s on Saturday and described the change as an early step toward making the longtime rivals “become one” following a landmark summit ...
North Korea is its own world in many ways. Now, it is getting its own time zone to match. State news agency, KCNA, has announced that North Korea will set its clocks back by 30 minutes to ...