Huidige Tijd in Songwŏn, Noord-Korea — KST.

Parliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 15 March 2026 to elect the members of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly. Originally expected to be held in 2024, the elections were announced on 4 March 2026, shortly following the conclusion of the 9th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea and Kim Jong Un's re-election as the General Secretary. With only one candidate on the ballot in each constituency, outside observers described it as a show election. 687 candidates for the DPRK deputies to the SPA were elected. North Korea's state media reported opposing votes, the first in a SPA election since 1957.

From Songwŏn the nearest of our reference hubs are Tokyo (~1,313 km), Singapore (~4,876 km), Dubai (~6,637 km), while São Paulo sits about 18,017 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.

Songwŏn sits inside Noord-Korea — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Pyongyang, languages Korean, currency KPW (₩).

Kop’ung (26 km), Songwŏn-ŭp (36 km), Kujang-ŭp (58 km), Yŏch’im-dong (66 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Songwŏn — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.

Closest curated airport references from Songwŏn: FNJ Pyongyang (129 km).

In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.