Input 2021.01.31 18:30
Regarding the suspicion that the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy recently raised the suspicion that the government was trying to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea, “this issue has not been promoted by government policy, and the claim that the nuclear power plant construction in North Korea was promoted in secret is not true.” Said on the 31st. In case the economic cooperation between the two Koreas becomes active in the future, it is argued that it is only a document that contains various possibilities at the level of ideas without specific plans.
The Ministry of Industry released its position data this afternoon and confirmed the contents of the report in the Ministry of Industry and the progress of the’North Korean nuclear power plant construction promotion plan’, as well as the progress after the preparation, and the claim that’the government tried to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea’ I confirmed that this is not true,” he said. The Ministry of Industry began its position, saying, “We would like to reveal the following positions within the minimum range necessary, even though the trial is currently underway.”
The Ministry of Industry and Industry reviewed various practical policy ideas by each department of the Ministry of Industry in case the inter-Korean economic cooperation is revitalized after holding the first inter-Korean summit on April 27, as a result of grasping the background of the document. “In the case of North Korean nuclear power plants, it was confirmed as internal data of the Ministry of Industry reviewed in terms of cooperation ideas in the energy field.”
As if conscious of the suspicion that documents related to the construction of North Korean nuclear power plants were written in large quantities, the Ministry of Industry drew a line saying, “The document has 4 pages in the main text and 2 pages for reference materials.” He also mentioned in the preface of the report that’this report is an internal review material and is not the official position of the government’. The Ministry of Industry also stated, “In the conclusion, there is a limit to the derivation of specific implementation plans due to high uncertainties depending on the content and level of denuclearization measures between North Korea and the United States, and further review is required after the denuclearization measures are materialized in the future.” Revealed.
The Ministry of Industry also emphasized that the document contains only ideas without specific plans. “The contents of the document also reviewed not only the North Korean region, but also other regions in South Korea by location, or referred to a plan to transmit power to the North after the construction of nuclear power plants in the South Korean region.” Revealed.
Regarding the controversy about the construction of nuclear power in North Korea, the opposition people’s power strongly raised suspicions about the intervention of the upper-ranking party, saying that building nuclear power plants in North Korea, which is subject to UN sanctions, is outside the scope of work that some public officials can voluntarily review.
The construction of the North Korean light water reactor under the 1994 Geneva agreement is based on the’denuclearization of the North’, and the question is whether officials can review the contents of the sudden construction of nuclear power plants in North Korea. If a nuclear power plant is built in North Korea, South Korea is also subject to secondary boycotts, that is, secondary sanctions, and it is against the Korea-US nuclear power agreement.
Accordingly, there is a battle over what data is contained in the portable storage device (USB) that President Moon Jae-in handed over to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Panmunjom inter-Korean summit on April 27th. There is a suspicion that the USB contained contents related to the nuclear power plant. Accordingly, the Ministry of Unification published its position data and explained, “There is no word or related content in the’New Economy Initiative on the Korean Peninsula’ delivered to the North during the April 27 inter-Korean summit in 2018.”