‘Kim Soo-hyun document’ four days before Wolseong closure… Ministry of Industry deleted, 檢 restored

The prosecution, who is investigating the suspicion of manipulating the economic feasibility evaluation for the early shutdown of the Wolseong nuclear power plant, recently called the Blue House administrator from the Ministry of Industry at the time to investigate. Administrator A is a person who is designated as a’messenger’ who delivered an early closing order from the industrial policy secretary at the time of Chae Hee-bong to the Ministry of Industry. Immediately before the decision to close Wolseong Unit 1, the prosecution also secured a document that the Ministry of Industry reported on follow-up measures and supplementary measures to Kim Soo-hyun at the time. The prosecution’s investigation is in the final stage and is heading for the Blue House post-nuclear policy decision line, including the former secretary.

Comprehensive coverage of the JoongAng Ilbo on the 3rd, it was revealed that the Daejeon District Prosecutor’s Office (Director Sang-Hyun Lee) recently summoned former administrator A as a suspect. Earlier, in November of last year, the prosecution confiscated and searched the home of administrator B in the climate and environment secretary’s office with administrator A and secured a mobile phone. The two were dispatched to the Office of the Industrial Policy Secretary under the Senior Economics Office and the Office of Climate and Environment Secretaries under the Senior Social Studies Office.

The decision to shut down Wolseong Unit 1 was due to the involvement of the Blue House Energy Transition Task Force (TF), which was led by Kim Soo-hyun, then the then chief social officer, as well as the Economic Chief’s Office.

In particular, Administrator A was instructed by Chae Hee-bong, then secretary for industrial policy (currently the president of Korea Gas Corporation), saying, “Inform the Minister of Industry of the plan to immediately shut down the Wolsong Unit 1 nuclear power plant and report it to the presidential secretary.” It is the person who delivered it to the head of the nuclear power plant industry policy section.

Earlier, the audit of the auditor, etc., included a number of data from the Blue House consultation in the document deleted by the Ministry of Industry. Among the 530 files deleted by the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, Documents “180611_Request for Industrial Secretary” and “180611_Follow-up and supplementary measures_(Senior Social Report)_correction of typos” that appear to have been made on June 11, four days before the decision of the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Council on June 15, 2018. Found and restored. Immediately before the final decision of the early closing of Wolsong Unit 1 by KHNP’s board of directors, the situation appeared in which not only actively discussed with the secretary, but also reported follow-up and supplementary measures to Kim Soo-hyun at the time.

Accordingly, it is pointed out that within and outside the prosecution, the investigation may proceed even to the’superior’ of the former secretary, depending on the contents of their statements.

In particular, it was the Energy Conversion TF that was in charge of the post-nuclear power plant policy at the Blue House at the time, and a document containing the circumstances reported by the Ministry of Industry to the then-head of the TF was also found by the Ministry of Industry, so it is inevitable to investigate the former chief Kim.

In the Moon Jae-in administration, former senior society leader Kim took care of not only the post-nuclear power policy, but also real estate and education, and was also called the ‘wang’. Starting with the role of President Moon’s presidential campaign policy advisory, he drew sketches not only for real estate, but also for energy and post-nuclear power policies. At the National Assembly in 2018, former chief Kim expressed his conviction that “a shift in energy policy rather than’dismantlement of nuclear power plants’”.

After leading the energy TF until October 2018, Chief Kim transferred all policies to the post-nuclear power plant to the Chief Economic Office. A month later, he died as the head of the policy office, who even oversees the chief economics office.

Regarding this, a passport official said, “At the time, at the time of the nuclear power plant-related party political meeting, senior socialite leader Kim Soo-hyun participated.” Former chief Kim said to the JoongAng Ilbo that “we haven’t been involved in the shutdown of Wolsong Unit 1 at all.”

On the other hand, as it was revealed that the document’Promotion of nuclear power plant construction in North Korea’ (Bukwonchu) was included in the data deletion list of officials of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, which was handed over to the trial, interest is also drawing on whether the prosecution will try to find out the details. Among the 530 document files created by government officials of the Ministry of Industry, such as Jung, and deleted the day before the auditor’s forensic (data recovery and extraction), 17 documents related to North Korea’s nuclear power plant support are also causing a stir.

Accordingly, it is said that the prosecution’s nuclear power plant investigation could be expanded to the entire nuclear power plant policy, or state affairs investigations and special prosecutors were introduced as requested by the opposition party, and the whole nuclear power plant policy could rise to the fore. It is in the sense that the working group of the Ministry of Industry could not have arbitrarily reviewed the issue of the nuclear power plant relocation, which is a national strategic material.

Reporters Kim Soo-min, Kang Kwang-woo and Ha Jun-ho [email protected]