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Next week, North Korea will wind back its standard time to 30 minutes to establish its own time zone and break Japanese imposed time. The new North Korean time will be 30 minutes behind South Korea, which is same as that of Japan.

New time zone in North Korea

Proposed by Parliament of North Korea on Wednesday, the time change will create a new "Pyongyang Time".

With the change the standard time will be at GMT+8:30 in North Korea, 30 minutes behind to standard time in Japan and South Korea, which is at GMT+9:00.

Officials of South Korean revealed that they would follow the current standard time, so as to match with international practice.

New time breaks time set by Japan

The new time will come into effect on 15 August, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Koreas liberation from the colonial rule of Japan.

Current local time was set by Japan, when single Korea was under its colonial rule from 1910 to 1945, till the end of World War II. Standard time in pre-colonial Korea was at GMT+8:30, which was changed in 1912 to Japan standard time.

According official North Korean Central News Agency, the establishment of new "Pyongyang Time" is intended to pull out the legacy of the period of Japanese colonial rule.

-Sumana