North Korea changes its time zone to match South Korea

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Whoa I never knew anyone was on their own half-hour difference time zone. Those rebels.

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Apparently they're on the same time as Japan and that's why they changed it:

It introduced the extra 30 minutes in 2015 as a stand against "wicked Japanese imperialists", because its hours were changed to match Tokyo's when the Korean peninsula was under Japan's rule.

Amazing it was only added in 2015 though. So they're 3 years in to it, it's probably not working out.