Samjiyŏn-ŭp, Kuzey Kore Güncel Saati — KST.

The 2017–2018 North Korea crisis was a period of heightened tension between North Korea and the United States. The crisis began early in 2017 when North Korea conducted a series of missile and nuclear tests that demonstrated the country's ability to launch ballistic missiles beyond its immediate region, suggesting their nuclear weapons capability was developing at a faster rate than had been assessed by U.S. intelligence. Both countries started exchanging increasingly heated rhetoric, including nuclear threats and personal attacks between the two leaders, which, compounded by a joint U.S.–South Korea military exercise undertaken in August and North Korea's sixth nuclear test in September, raised international tensions in the region and beyond and stoked fears about a possible nuclear conflict between the two nations. In addition, North Korea also threatened Australia twice with nuclear strikes throughout the year for their allegiance with the United States. International relations lecturer and former government strategist Van Jackson said in the book On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War that it was the closest the world had come to nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

From Samjiyŏn-ŭp the nearest of our reference hubs are Tokyo (~1,194 km), Singapore (~5,122 km), Dubai (~6,814 km), while São Paulo sits about 17,932 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.

Samjiyŏn-ŭp sits inside Kuzey Kore — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Pyongyang, languages Korean, currency KPW (₩).

Hyesan (46 km), Hyesan-dong (47 km), Yŏnsa-ŭp (58 km), Kapsan-ŭp (79 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Samjiyŏn-ŭp — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.

Closest curated airport references from Samjiyŏn-ŭp: FNJ Pyongyang (364 km).

In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.