The list of 530 files deleted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy officials in charge of the nuclear power plant just before the audit by the Audit Office in December 2019 was released on the 28th. Among them, it was found that a number of documents related to North Korea’s nuclear power plant construction and inter-Korean energy cooperation prepared in 2018 were included. This was revealed through the crime list attached to the complaint by the Daejeon District Prosecutors’ Office on the 23rd of last month indicting three officials of the Ministry of Industry, including Director Munmo, for obstruction of audit.
Listed in 530 public complaints
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– The list of 530 deleted files includes the’Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Expert_Nuclear Power.hwp’ file of May 2, 2018, and the’North Korean Nuclear Power Plant Construction Promotion Plan.hwp’ dated May 14 and 15 of the same month. Research reports such as’The Current Status of the North Korean Electric Power Industry and Integrated Cases in Germany.
There are 17 files to be deleted related to North Korea in the list, 13 except those with the same name. As a result of the restoration, all of these files are said to be under the upper folder called ’60 pohjois’. pohjois means’north’ in Finnish. In the Naver Finnish dictionary,’Pohjois-Korea’ is North Korea. Also, under the pohjois folder, there was a subfolder called’bukwonchu’.
Deleted North Korea related folder’pohjois’ in Finnish North… As if you were very concerned about security
List of deletion of 530 files of officials of the Ministry of Industry attached to the prosecution complaint. The red squares are files related to North Korea.
– Bukwonchu can be estimated as an abbreviation for the title of the deleted file, “Promotion Plan for Nuclear Power Plant Construction in North Korea”.
These documents appear to have been written between the first inter-Korean summit in Panmunjom on April 27, 2018, followed by the first North Korea-U.S. summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12. In fact, at the time of the April 27 Panmunjom meeting, President Moon Jae-in delivered the plan for the new economy on the Korean Peninsula to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. President Moon said at a meeting of chief and advisors that presided over April 30 that year, “I handed a brochure and PT (presentation) video to Chairman Kim of the New Economy initiative.” President Moon said that the PT video was stored on a USB storage device and delivered directly to Chairman Kim.
At that time, the leaders of the two Koreas walked together in Dobodari, Panmunjeom, and shared conversations at the summit meeting, “The power plant problem… ”Was caught. On this, observations suggest that the issue of North Korea’s power after denuclearization may have been discussed. 〈JoongAng Ilbo, April 30, 2018, p. 5〉
However, in connection with some media reports that the Democratic Party, who served as the head of the National Planning and Situation Office of the Blue House at the time in 2018, in November of last year, in connection with some media reports that it promoted a plan to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea, he said, “It’s a story like a novel.” There was no “won”.” The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy is in an awkward mood about North Korea-related documents. In the context of declaring nuclear power, the fact that the plan to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea immediately after the inter-Korean summit in 2018 could lead to political and diplomatic problems.
Regarding this, a key official from the Ministry of Industry said, “I have not heard that there were any instructions or reports related to the construction of North Korean nuclear power plants at the time.” However, he added, “At the time, in the context of the opening of new inter-Korean relations, we could have assumed various scenarios and prepared various plans.”
Reporters Lee Chul-jae, Kim Ki-hwan, and Park Hyun-joo [email protected]
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