2015 in North Korea

Events from the year 2015 in North Korea. The year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.^[1] The year was celebrated as the year of DPRK-Russia friendship.^[2]

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See also:	Other events of 2015 Years in North Korea Timeline of Korean history 2015 in South Korea

Incumbents

• First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea: Kim Jong-un
• Premier: Pak Pong-ju

Events

January

• January 2 – The United States enacts financial sanctions on the North Korean Special Operation Force and 10 government officials in retaliation for the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack.^[3]

February

• February 7 – North Korea test fires a new "ultra-precision" intelligent anti-ship missile which is to be deployed across its navy.^[4]

March

• March 2 – North Korea lifts restrictions on entry into the country imposed ostensibly to stop the spread of the Ebola virus.^[5]
• March 9 - A North Korean diplomat is caught smuggling $1.7M of gold bars into Bangladesh.^[6][7]

August

• August 15 – North Korea adopts UTC+08.30, or Pyongyang Standard Time to "eliminate Western imperialism". The time was previously used by both Koreas until the enactment of UTC+09.00 in 1961.

Elections

• 2015 North Korean local elections

Deaths

December

• December 29 – Kim Yang-gon, politician and a senior official of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea. (b. 1942)