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'North Korea likes to go its own way and from 15th August it will be observing Pyongyang time'

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North Korea has decided to push back its clocks by thirty minutes, putting it in a different time zone to South Korea. Jean H Lee - who set up the Associated Press news bureau in Pyongyang - explains why. ( Photo: A watch and clock vendor sits in his shop in Seoul. Credit: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)

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