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from the if-they-use-dst-it'd-be-an-act-of-war dept.
North Korea has switched from the UTC+08:30 offset, which it has used since 2015, back to UTC+09:00 (Korea Standard Time), matching South Korea in a "first practical step" towards reunification:
North Korea has changed [its] time zone to match the South after last week's inter-Korean summit, according to state media. At 23:30 local time (15:00 GMT) on Friday the country's clocks moved forward 30 minutes to midnight. The reset is "the first practical step" to speed up Korean unification, the official KCNA news agency said.
Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump says he has a date for his meeting with the North's leader, Kim Jong-Un. "We now have a date and we have a location, we'll be announcing it soon," Mr Trump told US journalists outside the White House on Friday, adding that he was expecting "very, very good things" to come out it. Mr Trump will host South Korea's president Moon Jae-in at the White House on 22 May to discuss the upcoming meeting.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday May 06 2018, @12:13AM (2 children)
Guessing his motives is not a great idea. He did what he needed to do and killed who he needed to kill to consolidate power before this point. Was all that just to silence any potential opposition to a peaceful reunification? Or does he want to remain a dictator and is using the same stalling tactics as his father before him?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06 2018, @06:08AM
I don't know about most of his motivations, but I'm 100% sure that one of them is trying to stay alive. A despot has to kill all potential rivals, to stave off his own demise. As seen by assassinations of his family members in other countries, it's not like he could avoid the conflict by running away. It's literally kill or be killed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 07 2018, @02:55PM
Just imagine if one day you woke up as him and you still wanted to live your "great dictator lifestyle". Which probably isn't that bad. You'd probably do about the same things he is doing in order to survive and maintain that lifestyle. Try to get nuclear weapons. Then if it fails, try plan B which is what he's probably doing now.