Input 2021.01.31 19:17 | Revision 2021.01.31 20:02
“A matter under trial” and clarification damage
On the 31st, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said “No” to the assertion of Democratic Party lawmaker Yoon Joon-byeong that’the internal documents related to the North Korean nuclear power plant construction promotion that were deleted before the auditor’s audit were reviewed by the Park Geun-hye administration’. The Ministry of Industry also escaped without a consistent and cool explanation, with an ambiguous position saying, “Details can not be revealed as they are under trial.”
Shin Hee-dong, a spokesman for the Ministry of Industry, said through a briefing on the position of the North Korean nuclear power plant by the Ministry of Industry at the Seoul Government Complex on the same day, “The data that were said to have been deleted are not the data that the Park Geun-hye government reviewed.” This is a response to Congressman Yoon’s insistence on his Facebook that “out of the 530 files deleted by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, 220 were data from the nuclear power plant at the time of the Park Geun-hye administration.”
In addition, the Ministry of Industry is under suspicion that from December 2017 to June of the following year, it has written about 10 trend reports by civic groups criticizing the Moon Jae-in government’s policy of leaving nuclear power plants. The Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) labor union, which opposed the post-nuclear policy, was also the subject of observation by the Ministry of Industry. Among the 530 files to be deleted, 63 were related to KHNP. There are also contents related to personal information such as’Resume of Vice President Suwon Han’.
The following is a question and answer with Shin spokesperson.
-In the public complaint, the title of documents suspected of being inspected by private organizations, such as’Trends of Regions and Stakeholders Related to Energy Conversion,”Launching and Trend Report of Nuclear Power Policy Alliance’,’Trends of National Integration Conference for Nuclear Power Export’ and’Report on Group Trends Related to Energy Conversion’ I can see them, but the position of the Ministry of Industry is.
“We know that documents related to the trends of stakeholders are at the level of reporting trends in general, not temples.”
-Is the resume of vice president Han Soo-won also the normal scope of work?
“As for the resume of Vice President Suwon Han, I think that the resume of executives of public institutions as a supervisory agency of the industry-academia committee is a standard data.
-Finally, it is pointed out that the deletion of documents was made under the organizational protection of the Ministry of Industry, not personal deviation.
“Regardless of understanding, I regret the deletion of the data. However, it is not an intervention by the Ministry of Industry and I think it will be revealed through investigation and trial.”
-Is the size of the nuclear power plant manpower, construction cost, and approximate building composition or area indicated in the document of the Ministry of Industry?
“The report was reviewed at the level of an idea, so there is no specific content. It is a little difficult to answer the details as it is being tried.”
-The time when the document was prepared was the period between the inter-Korean summits, but was it prepared at the request of the Blue House and submitted to the Blue House or the inter-Korean cooperation authorities? If it is normal content from the previous government, can the document be disclosed?
“This data has been closed as an internal review data. It is not possible to disclose the data as it may affect the ongoing trial.”
-Please clarify the details of why the document was produced after the first inter-Korean summit in 2018.
“At the conclusion of the report, after the first inter-Korean summit was held on April 27, 2018, it was only a dimension of various ideas reviewed in terms of cooperation in preparation for the vitalization of inter-Korean economic cooperation in the future. Details and level of denuclearization measures between North America, etc. Therefore, since the uncertainty is high, it was reviewed after clearly describing and specifying the limitations.”
-Are there only nuclear power plant promotion documents in the documents deleted by officials of the Ministry of Industry? Currently, some reports say that the plan that President Moon Jae-in gave to Chairman Kim Jong-un was not a nuclear power plant, but a renewable energy plan such as solar and wind power. In addition, please tell me the reason why the official of the Ministry of Industry has internally reviewed the construction of nuclear power plants rather than thermal power generation.
“Please understand that I cannot tell you about the content as it is currently in trial.”
-The review of North Korean nuclear power plant support seems to be irrelevant to the Wolseong nuclear power plant issue, but I am curious about the reason why the employee deleted the related file before the audit.
“I repeat, but I’m sorry, but it’s difficult to say the reason for the deletion, because the trial is currently pending.”
-It was said that it was an internal review plan, but it is pointed out that it is contradictory that the Ministry of Industry planned to build a nuclear power plant rather than other developments of North Korea while the government was pursuing energy conversion or a nuclear power plant policy.
“As stated in our position, since this is an issue reviewed at the level of cooperation in the energy field and at the level of ideas, I think it does not contradict the energy policy being promoted by the current government.”