Pinko is a slang term coined in 1925 in the United States to describe a person regarded as being sympathetic to communism, though not necessarily a Communist Party member.
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韓国の共産主義者Moon:冬季五輪の本当の勝者なのか?
香港のSouth China Morning Postの記事だが、韓国でこんなタイトルの記事書いたら痛い目にあうと思う。
“Is Moon Jae-in pinko?” asked the title of a Korea Times op-ed published last year. Written by a senior editor, the piece began: “Some detractors of Moon Jae-in would call him and his supporters a bunch of commies and claim that they shouldn’t be trusted to run the country.” This is the stock criticism of members of the South Korean left – that they are closet communists, with Moon often held up as a shining example.
“Critics call him a red – a communist – because his approach to North Korea is dovish,” Tae Ki-soo, Moon’s biographer, told NPR in May. But Tae said he didn’t see that as a bad thing. “Moon treats North Koreans as human beings – because of his parents.”
Moon’s parents were North Koreans who defected in 1950 aboard the SS Meredith Victory, the ship that evacuated more than 14,000 refugees in a single trip during the Korean War. “They despised the North Korean Communist regime,” Moon told CNN in September. “They fled to seek freedom.”
Some critics have even gone so far as to argue that one of Moon’s favourite snacks, pig’s feet, which is also popular in the North, is further evidence of his communist ways.
But what has really incensed opponents has been his decision to invite the regime to this week’s Olympics. Michael Breen, author of The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation, told This Week in Asia that Moon’s supporters “tend to be unification romantics
The conservative South Korean Chosun newspaper observed: “Seoul voluntarily postponed holding joint military exercises with the United States during the Games. But now it says North Korea’s massive military parade is no big deal. Just whose side is the government on?”