N.Korea to change clocks to rejoin S. Korea's time zone
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The two Koreas are expected to live under a same time zone starting May 5th... as North Korea said Monday that its leader Kim Jong-un made the decision to do away with the separate 'Pyongyang time' with the hope of unifying the people of South and North Korea.
The two countries on the divided peninsula have had different time zones since August 2015... when the North suddenly changed its standard time to 30 minutes behind South Korean time.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reported to have told President Moon Jae-in during their summit last Friday.... that it was heartbreaking to see two different clocks at the Peace House,... one showing South Korean time and the other showing North Korean time.
And to tell us more about this,... as well as what came out of the historic summit last week,... Dr. Woo Jung-yeop,... a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, joins us in the studio today.
So good to see you
Good to be here.
1- So like we just heard... North Korea is going to reset its clocks to rejoin South Korea's time zone... starting May 5th.
What can we make of this gesture by the North right after Friday's summit?
2- Kim Jong-un also pledged to dismantle its Punggye-ri nuclear test site in May and said he would invite international experts and journalists to watch the process.
What might have led Mr. Kim to make such a decision?
3- And the dismantlement of the Punggye-ri site is likely to happen *before the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
What could be North Korea's intentions?
4- According to South Korea's presidential office on Sunday... Kim Jong-un said that he's "not the kind of person who will shoot nuclear missiles at the South, the Pacific or the United States."
He also said that if the U.S. tries talking with the North,... it will see that he is not the type of person who would fire nuclear weapons, or even possess them,... if there is trust.
These aren't things that we expected to hear directly out of a North Korean leader's mouth... what can we make of such statements?
5- So we are seeing South Korea closely working with regional players after the summit,... while reports are saying that the Trump-Kim summit may happen earlier than expected.
6- Trump meanwhile, supported the formal, official end to the Korean War,... so does this mean we could be seeing the war officially come to an end before the year's end?
7- President Moon also talked on the phone with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe... and Abe met with Suh Hoon, director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service... who visited Tokyo to brief Abe on the inter-Korean summit.
The Blue House also said Sunday that Kim Jong-un is willing to hold talks with Abe...
The two Koreas are expected to live under a same time zone starting May 5th... as North Korea said Monday that its leader Kim Jong-un made the decision to do away with the separate 'Pyongyang time' with the hope of unifying the people of South and North Korea.
The two countries on the divided peninsula have had different time zones since August 2015... when the North suddenly changed its standard time to 30 minutes behind South Korean time.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reported to have told President Moon Jae-in during their summit last Friday.... that it was heartbreaking to see two different clocks at the Peace House,... one showing South Korean time and the other showing North Korean time.
And to tell us more about this,... as well as what came out of the historic summit last week,... Dr. Woo Jung-yeop,... a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, joins us in the studio today.
So good to see you
Good to be here.
1- So like we just heard... North Korea is going to reset its clocks to rejoin South Korea's time zone... starting May 5th.
What can we make of this gesture by the North right after Friday's summit?
2- Kim Jong-un also pledged to dismantle its Punggye-ri nuclear test site in May and said he would invite international experts and journalists to watch the process.
What might have led Mr. Kim to make such a decision?
3- And the dismantlement of the Punggye-ri site is likely to happen *before the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
What could be North Korea's intentions?
4- According to South Korea's presidential office on Sunday... Kim Jong-un said that he's "not the kind of person who will shoot nuclear missiles at the South, the Pacific or the United States."
He also said that if the U.S. tries talking with the North,... it will see that he is not the type of person who would fire nuclear weapons, or even possess them,... if there is trust.
These aren't things that we expected to hear directly out of a North Korean leader's mouth... what can we make of such statements?
5- So we are seeing South Korea closely working with regional players after the summit,... while reports are saying that the Trump-Kim summit may happen earlier than expected.
6- Trump meanwhile, supported the formal, official end to the Korean War,... so does this mean we could be seeing the war officially come to an end before the year's end?
7- President Moon also talked on the phone with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe... and Abe met with Suh Hoon, director of South Korea's National Intelligence Service... who visited Tokyo to brief Abe on the inter-Korean summit.
The Blue House also said Sunday that Kim Jong-un is willing to hold talks with Abe...