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Regarding the recent controversy over the’North Korean nuclear power plant construction’, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said, “It has confirmed that the claim that the government tried to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea is not true.” The Ministry of Industry published a press reference on the 31st and said, “The controversy over the construction of nuclear power plants in North Korea is spreading unnecessarily.”
The Ministry of Industry said, “As a result of grasping the background of the document, the first inter-Korean summit was held on April 27, 2018, and then various practical policy ideas were reviewed by each department of the Ministry of Industry in case the inter-Korean economic cooperation would become active in the future. He said, “The documents related to the North Korean nuclear power plant were also confirmed as internal data from the Ministry of Industry reviewed for the idea of cooperation in the energy field.”
The list of files to be deleted at Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant also includes documents on the trends of civil organizations and KHNP unions that opposed the nuclear power plant policy. [일람표 캡처]
– However, Shin Hee-dong, a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry, said at the briefing on the day that “the document to be deleted is not the data that the Park Geun-hye government has reviewed.” It means that the claim that some of the passports are “internal data reviewed from the Park Geun-hye administration in terms of a simple idea” (with Yun Jun-byeong, a member of the Democratic Party) is not true.
According to the Ministry of Industry, the document has a total of 6 pages, including 4 pages of the main text and 2 pages of reference materials. In the preface, it is stated that “this report is an internal review and not the official position of the government.” In the conclusion, the Ministry of Industry explained that it acknowledges the limitation that “denuclearization measures between North Korea and the United States require further review after becoming concrete, and there is a limit to the derivation of specific plans due to high uncertainties depending on the content and level of denuclearization measures between North Korea and the US.
The Ministry of Industry emphasized that “the document was closed without further review or public disclosure. This issue has not been promoted by government policy, and the claim that the North Korean nuclear power plant construction was promoted in secret is not true.” .
Regarding the fact that a related document was prepared by grasping the trends of civic groups against the post-nuclear policy, he drew a line saying, “It is not an inspection.” Spokesman Shin emphasized, “I know it is at the level of reporting the general trend, not the temple.” Regarding the release of personal information files such as the resume of Vice President Suwon Han, he explained, “I think the resume of executives of public institutions as a supervisory institution is the data at the normal level.”
Spokesman Shin said, “Regardless of the reason for the deletion of the document, I regret it,” he said. “It is not an intervention by the Ministry of Industry, and it is expected to be revealed through investigation and trial.”
Sejong = Reporter Son Hae-yong and Kim Nam-jun [email protected]
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