Thread by @ColinZwirko

ALERT: Poor journalism from @Telegraph
Cites Korean Development Institute report, wrong pub date, no title/link, doesn't clarify it's just a paper written by one man, economist Kwon Tae-jin from GS&J, and further mistranslates/misinterprets data (p76)
kdi.re.kr/kdi_eng/public…

https://twitter.com/TelegraphWorld/status/1400503419937361921

@Telegraph completely butchered the Korean and simply made things up. Compare the full passage above, but actual article has Kwon saying WFP Global Report on Food Crises says NK is in "crisis" and countries in crisis GENERALLY see people spending most their assets on food.

@Telegraph says somehow NK was found to have only produced 4mil tons of grain "last year", but this economist in the KDI report said that was for 2018, and was just over not "under" 4mil, so Telegraph can't even read graphs

So once more let's look at this headline and subheadline and notice that it's complete bullshit.

Turns out it's largely a botched attempt at copying an already very bad Yonhap article, and also Telegraph's 4 million tons number was miscopied but otherwise referred to Kwon's personal math derived estimate of 2020, which shouldn't be reportable m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN202106…

When Yonhap reports that article in a KDI monthly & refers to the single economist's findings as according to a "state-run think tank," is it deliberate obfuscation, elevating the info to make sound more official? Whatever it is it's unhelpful when laundered in mainstream media