What is Time in North Korea?
Time in [[North Korea]] is given '''Korea Standard Time''' (KST) which is 8.5 hours ahead of [[Coordinated Universal Time]] (UTC). If it is 16:00 UTC, it is 01:00 the next day in North Korea. It has never observed [[Daylight saving time|summer time]]. North Korea was originally 8:30 hours ahead of UTC ([[UTC+08:30]]) from 2015 to 2018, 30 minutes behind neighboring [[South Korea]] and [[Japan]], as announced in August 2015, but reverted to UTC+09:00 now on the same time as Seoul and Tokyo beginning at 23:30 on 4 May 2018. [[Category:Time by country|North Korea]] [[Category:North Korea]] {{asia-stub}}