[tz] North Korea ultimatum deadline time confusion
Alexander Krivenyshev
worldtimezone at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 21 20:13:32 UTC 2015
Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:
>
> North Korea has delivered a 48-hour ultimatum to the South Korean Defense
> Ministry, saying that it will respond militarily unless South Korea stops
> broadcasting propaganda via loudspeakers over the border. There seems to
be
> some confusion about the ultimatum's exact deadline. Ju-Min Park and
James
> Person of Reuters report that although the ultimatum
is "uncharacteristically
> specific", the deadline is "around 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) on Saturday in
Seoul".
> Could the time confusion be due to the recent time zone change in North
Korea?
Here is from Shanghai Daily:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=298950
Top DPRK leader Kim Jong Un chaired an emergency enlarged meeting of the
central military commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea late
Thursday, ordering frontline combined forces to enter state of war from 5
p.m. (0830 GMT) Friday.
Unless South Korea stops the propaganda broadcasts within 48 hours from 5
p.m. (0800 GMT) Thursday, the DPRK will launch military actions, according
to an ultimatum sent Thursday via military hotline by the general staff
department of the Korean People's Army to the South Korean defense
ministry. Last weekend, the DPRK threatened indiscriminate strikes against
the loudspeakers, which Pyongyang demanded to be dismantled.
Alexander Krivenyshev,
WorldTimeZone.com
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