North Korea created its own timezone – Pyongyang Time – in 2015 but is moving it forward 30 minutes following recent talks.
North Korea is moving its forward by half an hour to bring its timezone back into alignment with South Korea in the wake of the historic peace summit last week.
The two countries have been half an hour out of sync since 2015, when Kim Jong Un’s regime created their own timezone for the country that was 30 minutes behind.
But Kim changed his mind at the peace summit on Friday. According to state media, he felt a « painful wrench » to see two clocks showing different times for the two Koreas at bilateral meetings.
He reportedly added: « It is not an abstract meaning that the north and the south become one, but it is just a process in which the north and the south turn their different and separated things into the same and single ones. »
Kim and the South Korean President, Moon Jae-in met in the Korean Demilitarized Zone last week. They put on a show of unity and friendship, and promised to work toward denuclearisation and pursuing a peace treaty to end the Korean War.
