North Korea on Friday at 2330 returned to Korean Standard Time (KST), bringing the two Koreas into the same time zone for the first time in close to three years.

The DPRK adopted so-called Pyongyang time on the August 15 Liberation Day holiday in 2015, at the time arguing that conventional Korean Standard Time was based on the longitude of Japan and thus not suitable for Korea.

That decision saw the country change its time to UTC+8.5: a half hour behind South Korea – a move the North Korean leader last week said he would reverse.

The state-run news agency