朝鮮8月15日起將採用平壤時間
North Korea is to establish its own time zone to celebrate its liberation from Japanese rule 70 years ago, state media said on Friday.
朝鮮官方媒體週五表示，爲慶祝擺脫日本統治70週年，朝鮮將設立自己的時區。
The change will reverse Japan’s intervention in 1912, two years after annexing Korea, when it moved the colony’s clocks forward by 30 minutes to bring it in line with Tokyo time.
此舉與1912年日本對朝鮮標準時間的干預剛好相反。1912年，吞併朝鮮半島已兩年的日本，將它這塊殖民地的標準時間撥快30分鐘，以與東京時間一致。
“The wicked Japanese imperialists committed even such unpardonable crimes as depriving Korea of even its standard time while mercilessly trampling down its land with 5,000 year-long history and culture,” said a decree from the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, North Korea’s parliament, according to state media.
朝鮮官方媒體表示，朝鮮最高人民會議常任委員會(Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly)頒佈法令稱：“邪惡的日本帝國主義犯下了不可饒恕的罪行，無情踐踏朝鮮擁有5000年曆史和文化的國土，甚至剝奪了朝鮮的標準時間。”
It said the country would revert to “Pyongyang time” on August 15. North Korea celebrates this as the day in 1945 when its first leader Kim Il Sung completed his conquest of the Japanese occupiers — although the consensus among foreign historians is that he was brought to North Korea by occupying Soviet forces more than a month later.
法令稱，朝鮮將在8月15日迴歸“平壤時間”。朝鮮此舉是爲了紀念1945年的8月15日，那一天朝鮮民主主義人民共和國的首位領導人金日成(Kim Il Sung)擊敗了日本佔領者。
The time zone change follows North Korea’s adoption in 1997 of the “Juche calendar” — named after Kim Il Sung’s signature ideology — which numbers years according to a system that begins with Kim’s birth in 1912.
1997年，朝鮮開始採用“主體”紀年，以金日成出生的1912年爲“主體元年”。 去年5月朝鮮與日本關係的試探性改善如今已陷入停滯。
