[단독]”Gas Park, secret meeting with Honam Lee, a real character in the movie’Duke'”

Korea Gas Corporation held a closed meeting in 2019 in Russia with Lee Ho-nam, a high-ranking North Korean national, insisted on the 8th.. Honam Lee is the actual model of the director of the North Korean Foreign Economic Commission (Lee Myung-woon), played by actor Lee Seong-min in the movie’Duke’, which was released in 2018.

Rep. Lee, a member of the People’s Power’De-nuclear Power and North Nuclear Power Fact Investigation Special Committee’, obtained the’North Korean Residents’ Contact Report Acceptance Form’ prepared by Deputy Director A of Gas Corporation. According to this, Mr. A requested and obtained permission from the Ministry of Unification to go to Vladivostok, Russia from November 29 to December 1, 2019 to meet North Korean personnel in person. The purpose of contact was to’acquire energy information and build a human network’.

In fact, Deputy General A met North Korean personnel during this period. In the document’related to business trips in the border between North Korea and Russia’ submitted by the KOGAS, it said, “I went on a business trip to understand the current status of industry and trade in the area I interviewed. In the box asking whether to interview North Korean personnel, it is written as’Meeting (one person)’ by hand with Mr. A’s signature.

Mr. A visited the parliamentary’s office and explained the details of his contact, and through a businessman in North Korea called’President Kim’, Lee Ho-nam, who was a disaster at the Lotte Hotel in Vladivostok, Russia on November 29 and December 1, 2019 I said I met. Mr. A explained that when he met Honam Lee, he asked, “If I buy Russian gas, can the Gas Corporation buy it?”

Afterwards, the dialogue shifted to a discussion on North Korea’s energy support plan, and Mr. A asked, “What kind of energy does North Korea use in relation to the development of the Wonsan-Galma tourist area?” “When a gas power plant is built, the development speed will be much faster. “I can build it in one year,” Lee said. The development of the Wonsan-Galma district is the core of the North Korean tourism business, and it is a project that has been promoted by the spirit of Chairman Kim Jong-un.

Honam Lee, born in 1953, has been involved in inter-Korean economic cooperation projects for a long time after graduating from Kim Il-Sung University. In the days of the Roh Moo-hyun administration, I met Ahn Hee-jeong, a former Chungnam branch in Beijing before the inter-Korean summit in 2007.

He also appears in the Black Gold Star document, known as an agent for North Korea during the 1997 North Wind incident. Black Gold is the code name of Chae-Seo Park, who was under the guise of a job at Aza Communication, an advertising company by the Ministry of Security, and tried to maneuver in relation to the North Korean business. It is the’Duke’ that made this film. In the play, the actual model of the head of the North Korean Foreign Economic Commission, who is a partner in cooperation with the North Korean business, is Honam Lee. As in the movie, he was actually involved in the production of an advertisement for Samsung Electronics Anycall in 2005 with singer Lee Hyo-ri and North Korean dancer Cho Min-ae.

Congressman Lee said “Mr. A’s business trip result report is missing the fact that he met Lee Ho-nam. Hee-bong Chae (former Blue House Industrial Policy Secretary) and President Moon Jae-in of the Blue House should thoroughly investigate the entire contact, including the involvement of the Blue House. .

Reporter Hyun Il-hoon [email protected]