North Korea is coming into its own - timezone that is.

The reclusive nation announced plans last week to install its own unique timezone, to overturn the local time imposed on the country by the Japanese Empire in 1910 when they ruled the country.

This time change will see the country move its clocks back by 30 minutes from tomorrow.

The official KCNA news agency has said this is to mark the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese rule.

South Korea says the time difference could cause some logistical issues with the North, such as the running of their joint industrial park in the city of Kaesong.

Due to State-imposed restrictions on journalists in the country, it has always been difficult to get a picture of life within the totalitarian state.

John Everard is coordinator of the UN Security Council Panel of Experts on sanctions on North Korea, and also former British ambassador to the country.

He gave Newstalk Breakfast a snapshot earlier.

"North Koreans tend to be quite friendly, chatty, they're quite warm people," he said.

On leader Kim Jong-un, he said: "I think he's quite erratic" - adding that he seems "much less predictable" than his father, Kim Jong-il.

But he says the timezone change will not make any big splash for the population.

"I think it'll be received by the long-suffering North Korean people just with a resigned sigh".