Weird Facts About North Korea

7. It is not 2016. It is Year 105 in North Korea. The Juche calendar was introduced in 1997 and is based on Kim Il-sung’s date of birth: 15 April 1912. That year is used as Juche 1 and the system works forward from there. There is no Juche 0. The Juche calendar does maintain the Gregorian calendar’s traditional months and the number of days in a month.