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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: 3, Interesting) by Immerman on Sunday May 06 2018, @03:26PM (1 child)
I read a news piece attributing the sudden change of face to North Korea's last nuke test blowing a hole through the side of the mountain they were testing under, and caused substantial collapse. If true, that would mean that in one swoop they destroyed their testing facility, inflicted an unknown degree of radioactive contamination on their country, and possibly killed, injured, and/or radiation-poisoned a substantial portion of their nuclear research team. That could indeed be good motive to start making nice.
An alternative is that Jong Un and his cabinet/puppet-masters realized that adopting his father's "crazy military despot" act wasn't going to work in the face of a US president who demonstrates a far broader and apparently genuine disconnection from reality. Not to mention China apparently starting to tire of constantly covering their asses.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday May 07 2018, @12:41AM
They had foreign visitors recently to dispel the rumor. It's false. The site was still operational very recently. It was shut down voluntarily.
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