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North Korea turns back clocks to create new time zone [Pyongyang time]

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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/08/07/north-korea-turns-back-clocks-to-create-new-time-zone/

 

North Korea is turning its clocks back 30 minutes to create a new time zone called “Pyongyang time.”

 
The isolated nation’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced the change Thursday. North Korea’s clocks will be turned back half an hour on Aug. 15, which marks the 70th anniversary of the country’s liberation from Japanese rule at the end of World War II.

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The change will place North Korea 12 and half hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time, taking the country’s time out of synch with Japan and South Korea, which are both 13 hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast.

 
The Guardian reports that local time in North and South Korea and Japan has been the same since Japan’s rule of the then single Korea between 1910 and 1945.
 
The new time zone “shall be fixed as the standard time of the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] and called Pyongyang time,” North Korean state-run television channel KRT said Friday. “The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time.”
 
 

 

 

lol North Korea

 

 

 

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kim: YOU ARE LATE FOR THE MEETING!

 

mind controlled general: SIR IM SORRY

 

kim: WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THIS

 

mind controlled general; THE NEW TIMEZONES SIR

 

kim: HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE GREAT TIME ZONES OF KIM JONG UN! TO THE GALLOWS!

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This doesn't belong in Tech news.

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 “The wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time.”

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What an idiotic thing to do. I guess this reminds me of Trump's attitude - give no fucks what anybody says, but that'd be an insult to Donald Trump.

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Srsly why is this idiotic? There are many areas that do this they are hardly the only one. I don't understand the fuss about it.

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Is that a cane...?

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That's great news and all but we can clearly see from that image that 

 

NORTH KOREA NOW HAS ACCESS TO TRIPLE MONITOR TECHNOLOGY

 

 

This is bad...

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N. Korea did it again

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maybe the people would get some food.

 

 

 

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Srsly why is this idiotic? There are many areas that do this they are hardly the only one. I don't understand the fuss about it.

Probably because it lacks any rational thought. Unless I'm mistaken, and I very well could be since I've not looked into this at all, but aren't all of these done specifically because they were necessary at the time whereas now there really isn't any reason for it to be added. And for that last part, unless the japanese actually did enforce a switch to a different timeset, thats irrelevant blame, and judging by how their government acts I wouldn't be surprised.

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Oh look, the nation state equivalent of the shortbus did some shortbus-ie shit.

 

Surprise?

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That's great news and all but we can clearly see from that image that 

 

KOREA NOW HAS ACCESS TO TRIPLE MONITOR TECHNOLOGY

 

 

This is bad...

Do not worry they do not have it..They just used 3 photos to look like trple monitor..so that rest of the world thinks they are highly advanced..

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That's great news and all but we can clearly see from that image that 

 

KOREA NOW HAS ACCESS TO TRIPLE MONITOR TECHNOLOGY

 

 

This is bad...

 

No, keyboards, mice, or anything else, so they're just small TV's and I wouldn't be surprised if that was just a static image on them. The tablecloth, floors, and chair are also incredibly cheap looking. He also probably doesn't actually need a cane. My spidey senses are telling me this was just a stage set up to make him look professional.

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Who uses that time zone anyway? The leader is just making shit up just so he'll be relevant in the news.

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I fail to understand why any of the people who can get close to him don't just murder him (or knock him unconscious) and deliver him to the west, and fix their own country.

 

That brainwashing must be some seriously strong shit.

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Ah Best Korea, the nation equivalent of the Short Bus.

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kim: YOU ARE LATE FOR THE MEETING!

 

mind controlled general: SIR IM SORRY

 

kim: WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THIS

 

mind controlled general; THE NEW TIMEZONES SIR

 

kim: HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THE GREAT TIME ZONES OF KIM JONG UN! TO THE GALLOWS!

don't you mean to the anti air gun

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/north-korean-defence-minister-executed-by-anti-aircaft-gun-report

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