North Korea remains an exception in the world, but now it’s trying to add another exception — time.
As the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia approaches, North Korea plans to remember it by setting its clocks back by a half-hour to create “Pyongyang time.”
The state-run Korean Central News Agency declared “the wicked Japanese imperialists committed such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time while mercilessly trampling down its land,” according to The Globe and Mail.
Japan brutally occupied the Korean peninsula during WWII.
According to North Korea Economy Watch, a blog run by Curtis Melvin, an expert on North Korea at Johns Hopkins University, “August 15 is not celebrated in NK as the end of WWII, but as the victory over Japanese colonialism (brought by Kim Il-sung, not allied forces),” and the only country as vilified as the United States is Japan.
Now, only half the peninsula will run on “colonial time.”
