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North Korea Change Time Zone and Make Your Own Calendar Year

North Korea is indeed often have their own way to organize the country and no other country in the world affected. Now the state's leader Kim Jong Un makes its own time zone.

KCNA news agency recently announced that North Korea will set the local time zone backwards 30 minutes of standard time GMT, London. Whereas the appropriate position and location, North and South Korea should have the same time is 9 hours ahead of GMT.

Pyongyang time now changed to 8.5 hours earlier than GMT starting August 15, just in time for the 70th anniversary of liberation from Japan. North korea reset time becomes GMT + 8:30 as it was before the Japanese occupation. The new time will put Pyongyang and a half hours behind Tokyo and Seoul.

"Imperialist Japan has done the unpardonable crime as depriving Korea even set the standard time while the merciless trampling the history that has lasted for 5,000 years," KCNA reported on Friday (7/8)

Even North Korea has had its own calendar. Calendar starts counting from the birth of the founder of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. Kim was born in 1912, known in North Korea as the year (Juche) 1. So now in 2015 globally but in North Korea is now the new year (Juche) 104. Juche word itself means, but not the kind of new understanding and created by Kim Il Sung. This ideology says something that the leader of the Lord.

A spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry, Jeong Joon-hee said he was worried this time zone change may cause some problems.

"Some of the difficulties that might come to the business exchange between North and South Korea, including flow to and from the Kaesong Industrial Complex, maybe there will be some integration issues between Korea in the long term" he said.

North Korea was not only that creates its own time zone. The same is done Venezuela in 2007. At that time, President Hugo Chavez in the country rewind time up to 1.5 hours for people to get "sunshine distribution more equitable".

As a result of this decision, then Venezuela is the only country which is 4.5 hours slower than the standard GMT time. North Korea is not a name that can not be freely set their own country as you wish.