From the cartoonist:
You may have missed this story. North Korea has created it’s own time zone. This puts North Korea 30 minutes behind South Korea and Japan, thus adding to the centuries it’s behind the rest of the world. A lot of people consider this the North’s snub to Japan, who did brutalize Korea during it’s imperial run throughout Asia.
Korea’s time zone was set by Japan in 1910 when it colonized Korea. South Korea actually went back to this time zone between 1954 to 1961, then changed back because it worked better financially to have the same time zone as Japan. There are still some efforts to return South Korea to the former time zone.
North Korea doesn’t just have it’s own time zone. They have their own calendar. Instead of counting from the birth of Christ, they count from the birth of founding leader, Kim Il Sung. Kim was born in 1912 — known in North Korea as Juche 1, making this year Juche 104.
With this cartoon idea, I needed 12 ideas. I had 12, but I thought I’d fish from a few friends to see if they had any suggestions. I sent out a text and a few made submissions and they all deserve shout outs as I have used a few of their submissions in here. The shout out will be the only compensation they’ll receive.
My friends who put their stamp in this cartoon is Chris Fink (we used to be in a band together), Gordon Johnson (the only guy in North America not on Twitter or Facebook and probably the most politically-knowledgeable person I know), Kenny Ellis (my ex-wife’s husband and the only one with a Rodman suggestion), Bobby Hebert (we worked together at The Free Lance-Star, and he’s a humor writer of sorts who I knew would take a crack at this), and Eric Hennessey (very creative guy, world traveler, Republican atheists and one of my best friends). I asked a few other people, but they didn’t come through. I’ll probably get texts with excellent ideas from them tomorrow.
I didn’t troll my cartoon pals for ideas. I’m not that stupid.
And the “eat dog” part is my idea. It’s not a stereotype or insult toward Asians. It’s a they’re-starving-in-North Korea insult.
If you have any suggestions, leave a comment.
http://claytoonz.com/2015/08/08/north-koreas-new-time-zone/
