Former Blue House Protocol Secretary Cho Han-gi, who claimed to be “false” about reports that President Moon Jae-in handed a USB with a’new economic initiative’ to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during the inter-Korean summit in 2018 It was a mention of passing over).” It is true that the USB was delivered to Chairman Kim during the meeting, even if it was not the Dobodari site.
![President Moon Jae-in (second from right) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (second from left) sign the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula at the inter-Korean summit on April 27, 2018. The left is Chairman Kim's younger brother, Kim Yeo-jeong, the first vice president of the Labor Party. [청와대사진기자단]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202101/31/8689edca-cb70-41dd-b914-dd618718d0b5.jpg?w=560&ssl=1)
President Moon Jae-in (second from right) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (second from left) sign the Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification on the Korean Peninsula at the inter-Korean summit on April 27, 2018. The left is Chairman Kim’s younger brother, Kim Yeo-jeong, the first vice president of the Labor Party. [청와대사진기자단]
In a phone call with JoongAng Ilbo on the 31st, Cho said, “The report that the power plant USB was handed over at the Dobodari talks was as if it were a’secret transaction under the bridge’. It was said that it was a novel to develop into.”
In the morning of the morning, Cho wrote on his Facebook page, “The article that President Moon handed a USB to Chairman Kim Jong-un in Doboda-ri, of course, is a lie.” He said, “At the time, the secretary of the protocol, and Kim Chang-seon of the North were together at the scene. “It’s just amazing to distort the scenes broadcast live all over the world.”
However, on April 30, right after the first inter-Korean summit, President Moon directly informed the media that he had “directly delivered the USB containing the New Economic Concept to Chairman Kim” through the then spokesman of the Blue House. At the time, President Moon said at a meeting of the Blue House chief and aides, “I hope that follow-up measures will be promoted with a sense of speed. There are things that can be started right away, and some have to wait for conditions to be established.”
So, the article written by former secretary Cho was interpreted as denying the’USB transmission’ itself recognized by President Moon, resulting in controversy.
President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un take a walk in Doboda-ri, Panmunjeom on the afternoon of the 27th. During the April 27 summit, President Moon handed a USB to Chairman Kim with the contents of the’power plant’. yunhap news
For this reason, it is said that the Blue House staff at the time made a phone call to former secretary Cho to correct the facts. After talking to the former secretary of Jo, JoongAng Ilbo, a member of the Democratic Party, Yoon Young-chan, who was chief of public communication at the Blue House, told the JoongAng Ilbo that he wrote to the JoongAng Ilbo, “I checked with the former secretary of Cho and said that he wrote the article to the effect that’There was no USB transmission in Dobodari. At the time, it was true that President Moon handed a USB to Chairman Kim at the first inter-Korean summit.”
In addition, in a text message with JoongAng Ilbo, former secretary Cho also said, “(At the time, USBN), it was already announced by President Moon as the party’s representative, and it contains the contents of economic cooperation and energy cooperation, etc.” He explained.
Reporter Kang Tae-hwa [email protected]