金正恩

Despotic rulers who display their muscle to turn back time
金正恩爲何推出「平壤時間」?


FT專欄作家貝蒂:金正恩將北韓時區推後半小時的法令或許怪異,但歷史上不乏統治者更改時區以彰顯權力的先例。當這類決定只是在假裝權威時,其所呈現的不過是不安與荒謬。

Kim Jong Un LINKED TO FRIDAY ADVANCE PAGE already rules North Korea like a medieval despot, but his latest eccentricity is actually trying to turn back time. To mark the 70th anniversary of victory over the “wicked Japanese imperialists”, the poobah of Pyongyang has decreed that his country will set its clocks half an hour later to reject the timezone Japan imposed during its occupation of the Korean peninsula.

金正恩(Kim Jong Un)已經像箇中世紀專制君主那樣統治北韓了,但他最近的怪異法令事實上是試圖改變時間。爲紀念戰勝「邪惡的日本帝國主義」70週年,這位北韓普巴(poobah,意爲至高無上的君主——譯者注)頒布法令,規定他的國家將把時區推後半小時,以抵制日本在佔領北韓半島時強加於北韓的時區。

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