Kim Jong Un, current leader of Best Korea and previous world champion cheese eater gout-haver, has decided it’s time for his country to make its own time zone. And why not? He’s in charge. He can do whatever he wants. If he wants the citizens of Best Korea to jump up and down on one foot for 6 hours straight then goddammit they’re going to jump up and down on one foot for 6 hours straight, assuming that they don’t die from famine in the meantime. Famine blows.
By “make its own time zone,” however, I mean they’re putting their clocks back 30 minutes. That’s it. So basically they’re going to inconvenience the entire world’s trade system by making up their own bullshit time zone for the sake of being hipsters. Then again, it’s not like Best Korea trades anything aside from crippling depression and death, so this probably won’t be much of a problem.
Its state news agency KCNA said Korea’s standard time had been changed during occupation by “wicked Japanese imperialists”.
North Korea is currently nine hours ahead of GMT and in the same time zone as neighbouring South Korea and Japan.
… It could affect work at North Korea’s Kaesong industrial plant which is run by both countries.(via)
North Korea puts in the corpses of its starving citizens, and out comes kimchi that gets fed to South Koreans because LOL North Korea + food = HAHAHAHAHAH yeah not so much.
As reported by the BBC, Unification Ministry official Jeong Joon-Hee said: “And in the longer term, there may be some fallout for efforts to unify standards and reduce differences between the two sides.”(via)
Newsflash dude: there’s no shot in hell you’re going to reduce any differences. North Korea is a desolate wasteland of death and one very large fat Korean man who doesn’t have any real clue how the world works, whereas South Korea is the home of K-Pop. Literally night and day. Shit ain’t gonna happen.
[H/T Mirror]