The North’s establishment of ‘Pyongyang time’, set to take effect on 15 August, is aimed at rooting out the legacy of the Japanese colonial periodNorth 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.

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