Déjà vu says the Prime Minister...

"don't you stay in such a place, but come with me

 - I will help you make a lot of money..."

The Hankyoreh

December 27, 2015

Merry Christmas from Washington

Asia Policy Makers In/Out for 2013

OUT 2012                                 IN 2013

Exposed Corrupt Officials	More Corrupt Officials
Youth League Faction	Princelings
"Leftover Women"	Leftover Men
Foreign Journalists	Andrea Yu
The World-Wide Web	"Internet with Chinese Characteristics"
"Peaceful Rise"	"Revival of the Great Chinese Civilization"
"Harmonious Society"	Harmonious Society?
Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry	Ai Weiwei - I'm sorry!
The Nine Dashed Line	The contiguous line
Tibetan self-immolations	Tibetan immolations
Hu/Wen	Xi Who?
Job-killing China	War-mongering China
Hello Kitty	Tsumori Chisato’s CATS
AKB48	ABE58
Olympic Gold	Olympus Sold
Korean strongmen	Korean strongwomen
Stomach trouble	Heartburn
Holocaust Deniers	Imperial Japan’s Deniers
POWs	Comfort Women
Dokdo/Takeshima	Senkakus/Daioyu
East Sea	West Philippine Sea
Henoko	Naha Airport
Tofu	Bugs
Sony	Samsung
Malaysian lobbying	Indonesian lobbying
Tsunami ravaged Japanese fishing villages	Hurricane ravaged New Jersey fishing villages
Somali pirates	Chinese Navy
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge	Wife of Kim Jung-un
Gangnam Style	One pound fish
Cam Ranh Bay	Subic Bay
Washington Japan Specialists With  personality	Washington Japan Specialists withOUT personality
Choking Beijing pollution	“Crazy Bad” Beijing pollution
Unsigned Hague Treaty Abe Lincoln Dr. Evil	Unsigned Hague Treaty Abe Shinzo Toshio Motoya
Rare Earth	Shale oil
Jagerbomb	Nuclear bomb

North Korea Rock Party

Tip of the hat for the above find to a former APP research assistant who will remain unnamed as he is a PhD candidate at Harvard University. As the creator of the above video says "Ain't no party like a Pyongyang party, 'cause a Pyongyang party is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY,"