Another controversy over the’promotion of nuclear power plants in North Korea?’

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Another controversy was that the list of 530 nuclear power-related documents deleted by officials of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, accused of interfering with the audit of the Wolsong Unit 1 nuclear power plant, revealed that a number of document files related to’North Korea nuclear power plant construction and inter-Korean energy cooperation’ were included. Has become.

According to the prosecution on the 29th, officials of the Ministry of Industry, including Mr. A (53), who are accused of damage such as public electronic records, violation of the Auditor’s Act, or intrusion, deleted 530 internal data related to nuclear power plants just before the audit of the auditor.

Among them, a number of data related to the North Korean nuclear power plant are said to be included.

In the folder titled’pohjois’ in Finnish meaning North and the folder titled’Bukwonchu’, which is short for’Promotion of North Korean Nuclear Power Plant’, step-by-step cooperation projects for the establishment of power infrastructure in North Korea, the current status of the power industry in North Korea, and German integration cases The prosecution found that there were files, etc.

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The file name, estimated as the date of creation, is stated as’May 2-15, 2018′, which is between the first inter-Korean summit and the second inter-Korean summit in 2018.

Although it is not relevant to the direction of the investigation of the Wolseong nuclear power plant suspicion conducted by the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office 5 (Prosecutor Sang-Hyeon Lee), the online-centered response, “The government left nuclear power in Korea and promoted nuclear power in North Korea.” There is also.

In addition, Democratic Party Rep. Yun Geon-young said on November 23 last year that the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy promoted a plan to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea immediately after the first inter-Korean summit in 2018. He said that there was no “won”.

Rep. Yun served as the head of the Blue House National Planning and Situation Office.

It means that officials from the Ministry of Industry deleted the files that were not related to the Wolseong nuclear power plant, which caused another controversy.

In response to this, the Ministry of Industry showed a position that it has never ordered or asked for a review (related to North Korean nuclear power plants).

An official from the Ministry of Industry said, “The government interpreted it as if it had been asked to examine something with a direction, but there was no such thing,” and “after the Park Geun-hye administration, even after mentioning that’unification is a big hit’, (North Korea) power or industrial facilities I have reviewed what to do.”

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