Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
North Korea goes
back in time
Changing the
nation’s standard time only after a less-than-a-week announcement. That sounds
like China announcing its national holidays of the year only three-month ahead.
But this time, it
is North Korea that has wound the clock back by half an hour. The purpose and
motive of this sudden change is to commemorate the 70th anniversary of
the liberalization from Japan’s ruling and the end of the war. Actually, before
the Japanese occupation started back in 1910, then unified Korea had been using
its own standard time that was 8.5 hours ahead of GMT, not nine. So this change
to retrofit its standard time doesn’t seem so unreasonable to the citizens if
they had been announced well ahead of time and to the neighbor country, South
Korea, if only it had been consulted.
Enjoy reading and
learning about this recent change in the most secretive state in the world.
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