North Korea to turn clocks back by 30 minutes to establish own time zone

August 07, 2015 16:19

North Korea has announced it will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back its current standard time by 30 minutes.

Local time in North and South Korea and Japan has been the same since Japan's rule over what was single Korea from 1910 to 1945. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said on Friday that the establishment of "Pyongyang time' was aimed at rooting out the legacy of the Japanese colonial period.

The new time zone will take effect on 15 August -- the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule at the end of the second world war. Read more

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