SEOUL: North Korea went ahead in time by means of 30 minutes on Friday, state media said, to compare its clocks with the ones of the South following last week's inter-Korean summit.
Leader Kim Jong Un promised the transfer all through the meeting at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, when he and the South's President Moon Jae-in pledged to pursue denuclearisation and a peace treaty.
"The time-resetting is the first practical step taken after the historic third north-south summit meeting to speed up the process for the North and the South to become one," said the reliable KCNA news company.
In Panmunjom, Kim had said he found it a "painful wrench" to look clocks at the summit venue appearing other times for the 2 neighbours, KCNA reported previous.
Kim expressed "his resolution to unify the two times... as the first practical step for national reconciliation and unity", it said, and the North's parliament on Monday followed a decree to position the transfer into effect from lately.
Seoul welcomed the verdict as a "symbolic move" in opposition to higher inter-Korean ties.
North and South are now massively other societies, one a democratic member of the OECD membership of advanced international locations, and the other an impoverished, hereditary one-party state left isolated by means of its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
But it used to be only in 2015 that the Koreas' clocks diverged, when Pyongyang put itself back 30 minutes to go back to the time zone used in the peninsula sooner than Japan colonised it in 1910.
As of lately, Seoul, Pyongyang and Tokyo are all in the similar time zone. North Korea isn't the only nation to have used time to assert its national identification.
China and India have each imposed single time zones to promote team spirit across their vast territories, with folks in China's westernmost provinces formally maintaining to Beijing time in spite of the solar rising and atmosphere two hours later than in the capital.
Most time zones around the world are an hour apart, however some have smaller differences - Myanmar is half an hour at the back of next-door Thailand, whilst Nepal sets itself 15 minutes ahead of India to assert a difference from its massive neighbour.
And in spite of mendacity on Europe's western edge, mainland Spain has been in the similar time zone as central Europe since 1942, when Francisco Franco's fascist executive followed it to line itself up with Nazi Germany.
Leader Kim Jong Un promised the transfer all through the meeting at Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula, when he and the South's President Moon Jae-in pledged to pursue denuclearisation and a peace treaty.
"The time-resetting is the first practical step taken after the historic third north-south summit meeting to speed up the process for the North and the South to become one," said the reliable KCNA news company.
In Panmunjom, Kim had said he found it a "painful wrench" to look clocks at the summit venue appearing other times for the 2 neighbours, KCNA reported previous.
Kim expressed "his resolution to unify the two times... as the first practical step for national reconciliation and unity", it said, and the North's parliament on Monday followed a decree to position the transfer into effect from lately.
Seoul welcomed the verdict as a "symbolic move" in opposition to higher inter-Korean ties.
North and South are now massively other societies, one a democratic member of the OECD membership of advanced international locations, and the other an impoverished, hereditary one-party state left isolated by means of its pursuit of nuclear weapons.
But it used to be only in 2015 that the Koreas' clocks diverged, when Pyongyang put itself back 30 minutes to go back to the time zone used in the peninsula sooner than Japan colonised it in 1910.
As of lately, Seoul, Pyongyang and Tokyo are all in the similar time zone. North Korea isn't the only nation to have used time to assert its national identification.
China and India have each imposed single time zones to promote team spirit across their vast territories, with folks in China's westernmost provinces formally maintaining to Beijing time in spite of the solar rising and atmosphere two hours later than in the capital.
Most time zones around the world are an hour apart, however some have smaller differences - Myanmar is half an hour at the back of next-door Thailand, whilst Nepal sets itself 15 minutes ahead of India to assert a difference from its massive neighbour.
And in spite of mendacity on Europe's western edge, mainland Spain has been in the similar time zone as central Europe since 1942, when Francisco Franco's fascist executive followed it to line itself up with Nazi Germany.
North Korea goes back to the future - by 30 minutes
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