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JE MAAMUZI YA TRUMP ATAIWEZA KOREA, DAMU ITAMWAGIKAA

Trump Made a Valid Point About North Korea. You'll Totally Guess What Happened Next.

By weeklystandard.com

If there are gas lines, then they're affecting the people we precisely want sanctions to hit.

President Trump tweeted the following about North Korea on Sunday morning:

The tweet revealed more than the president’s charming affection for Bernie Taupin’s brilliant lyrics. It also revealed a sadly predictable myopia among the Twitter smart-set.

Max Fisher, a New York Times blogger whose modest remit is the entire “world,” said the following:

Dan Drezner, who teaches at Tufts University and is a fellow at Brookings, thought that Fisher's point, which was echoed by Buzzfeed staffer Miriam Elder, was a brilliant one:

It’s obviously true that most North Korean’s don’t own cars. (Though more and more do; well-connected individuals simply register them in the name of state-owned enterprises that they head up.)

But it’s also irrelevant: If there are in fact “gas lines” in North Korea, then they’re affecting the people we precisely want sanctions to hit: the elites. (Not to mention the military and productive industries). In fact, the existence of North Korean “gas lines” would be proof that targeted sanctions, which are designed to deprive the elite of resources, are actually working.

Others mocked the notion that there are gas lines at all. Award show junkie Chris Hayes said:

Granted, Hayes works for one the world’s largest news organizations so there’s no way he could know this, but there havebeen reported gas shortages in North Korea for several months. As far back as April, reports emerged of rising gas prices in Pyongyang.

Since then, the price hikes and apparent gas shortages appear to have continued. Radio Free Asia reported last week that “Gas stations closed without explanation for a few days late in August in a North Korean province bordering China, sparking concerns over possible austerity drills and causing prices to double when sales finally resumed.” More:

“Gas stations throughout Ranam, Songpyon, Sunam, Pohang, Sinam, and Chongam districts were all closed,” one source told RFA, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Gas prices then doubled, and it was chaos.”

Daily NK, the indispensable online newspaper largely sourced by North Koreans, has reported similar news in recent months. So we know for sure that there have been gas shortages, rising prices, and "chaos." Are gas lines really that implausible?

Yes, they are!, said Anna Fifield of theWashington Post. Fifield penned an articleheadlined “Trump’s claim there were long gas lines in North Korea has residents puzzled.” The wildly oversold headline sits atop an article that cites two foreign residents of Pyongyang to refute the president:

Residents in the North Korean capital are scratching their heads. Although there are reports of price increases, they’ve seen no queues at the few service stations in Pyongyang, a city of about 2 million people that has more cars than it used to but is still far from congested.

“We are not aware of any long queues at the gas stations,” one foreign resident of Pyongyang said. “At least, I haven’t noticed anything. I asked a few Koreans, and they haven’t seen anything either.”

Another said there had been no obvious change since the last sanctions resolutionwas passed by the U.N. Security Council. “Traffic on Friday was as heavy here as I’ve seen it. Normal on Saturday. Quieter on Sunday.” In other words, the same as every week.

So a foreigner is “not aware” of gas lines in North Korea. Interesting, but hardly dispositive.

But it was enough for Daniel Dale, a Toronto Star correspondent who has made a cottage industry of tallying up President Trump's lies. Citing Fifield's piece, Daleclassified Trump's claims of North Korean "gas lines" a "false claim."

By the way, Donald Trump spoke of “gas lines” just after concluding a conversation with South Korean president Moon Jae-in. Isn't it possible that the American and South Korean presidents just might have better information about what’s going on inside North Korea than the D.C. correspondent of a Toronto broadsheet?

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