North Korea’s Receding Time Zone

North Korea’s Receding Time Zone

By Scott Neuman

The reclusive authoritarian regime has announced that it will turn back its clocks half an hour beginning next week to mark 70 years since liberation from Japan.

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Via: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/07/430314111/north-korea-s-receding-time-zone?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=world

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