Topic: Glorious Leader In North Korea Breaks From ‘Imperialism’ Creates Own Time Zone… (Read 331 times)
August 09, 2015, 05:05:42 PM
This is just another ploy by Kimmie boy to play the historical card and rally the people around the regime/motherland. Haven't heard much out of them lately so they obviously decided to try to take peoples' minds off the shitty food situation.
August 08, 2015, 01:16:27 PM
The title should have been "North Korea goes back to its old time zone". Before 1910, the Korean time zone was GMT+8:30. When the Japanese invaded Korea, they changed it to GMT+9:00, to match the Tokyo Time Zone. Now it has been reversed. Not a big deal, in my opinion. The media is unnecessarily sensationalizing this news.
August 08, 2015, 09:43:57 AM
North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, says state media.
North Korea is currently in the same time zone as South Korea and Japan, which are nine hours ahead of GMT.
But Pyongyang Time will see the clocks put back by 30 minutes on 15 August.
State news agency KCNA said “wicked Japanese imperialists” had “deprived Korea of even its standard time” by changing the clocks during occupation.
The entire Korean peninsula – then one country – was 8.5 hours ahead of GMT until Japan colonised it in 1910.
KCNA quoted officials as saying the decision to adopt Pyongyang Time reflected “the unshakeable faith and will of the service personnel and people on the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33815049
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