When people scratch their heads and worry that the newly-announced time zone for North Korea just isolates the country, they don’t get it. Of course a weird what-the-heck-time-is-it-anyway clock isolates North Korea. That has been the purpose of the ruling family there since the place was tortured into existence by the Russians in 1945. (Another thing to thank the Russians for). North Korea cannot exist without being isolated. The idea of “normal relations” with anybody makes the little dictator want to strap people to the barrel of a cannon. Outside thoughts, money, business and capitalist aspirations would sweep him and his family away in a wink. Of course the tick-tock comrade clock will isolate them. You bet.
