Kim Channels Chavez by Changing North Korea’s Time Zone
North Korea Changes Its Time Zone
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Kim Jong Un is following the lead of former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez in changing time, marking the anniversary of liberation from Japan’s colonial rule by moving the clock back in North Korea by half an hour.
The change will take effect Aug. 15, on the 70th anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender that saw the nation relinquish control over the Korean peninsula, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Friday, citing a parliamentary decree.