SEOUL: North Korea began moving to a new rhythm as bells, whistles and ships’ sirens sounded a midnight shift to a different time zone and clocks turned back 30 minutes.
The move to “Pyongyang Time” yesterday coincided with the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s 1945 liberation from Japanese colonial rule and means the two Koreas now operate in different time zones.
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