N. Korea to be in time zone of its own from Aug. 15

N. Korea to be in time zone of its own from Aug. 15

Photo taken Aug. 14, 2015, shows a clock at Pyongyang station. North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency has reported that from Aug. 15, the 70th anniversary of independence from Japan's 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula, clocks in the country will be turned back 30 minutes, placing North Korea in a time zone of its own. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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