North Korea Creates New Time Zone To Celebrate 70th Independence From Japan

North Korea Creates New Time Zone To Celebrate 70th Independence From Japan

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North Korea will create a new time zone by setting their clock back by 30 minutes to celebrate their 70 years liberation from Japanese colonisation on the 15th of August.

According to CNN, this was made known by the State news agency, KCNA. With this change, the time will go back to GMT+08:30, the way it was before the Japanese rule.

This will not be the first time they are changing things as North Korea already have their own calendar which counts from the birth of founding leader, Kim Il Sung in 1912 rather than Jesus Christ so this is year Juche 104.

The new time will put Pyongyang half an hour behind Tokyo and Seoul and South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman, Jeong Joon-hee says this new time might cause some difficulties and have negative effects on inter-Korean integration in the long-term.

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