When the document’Nuclear power plant in North Korea’ was created… Context of the Munjeongbu government, also promoting thermal power plants

Candidate Chil-seung Kwon of’Friendly’ even published a press release in 2018

The suspicion of the “nuclear power plant gate” spread that the Moon Jae-in administration promoted a plan to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea before and after the inter-Korean summit in 2018.

In the midst of this, the past claim of candidate Kwon Chil-seung, Minister of SMEs and Startups, recounts that the government and the ruling party promoted the construction of a’peace power plant’ in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) at a similar time.

“Kwon Chil-seung reveals that’the government has established a thermal power plant plan for North Korea'”

As a result of a summary of the past press releases and activities of candidate Chil-seung Kwon (currently a member of the Democratic Party) on the 1st of May 8, 2018, “The government was determined by North Korea. We distributed a press release stating that we have established a power plant plan for this.

Candidate Kwon released a press release about the content, about ten days after President Moon Jae-in met Kim Jong-un of North Korea at the first inter-Korean summit on April 27 of the same year and handed over the USB.

It is also a period of overlap between the first inter-Korean summit and the second summit (May 26), which is known as the time when the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy produced documents related to the North Korean nuclear power plant.

The opposition is strongly raising suspicion that there may have been a content related to the’promotion of North Korean nuclear power plant construction’ in USB.

According to the press release published on the official Naver blog of Kwon, candidate Kwon said, “The government has established a plan to build a’Peace Power Plant’ that produces twice the electricity currently used in Pyongyang in the North-South border. It was confirmed,” he said, “We will promote the construction of new coal-fired power plants in major regions of North Korea.”

The Moon Jae-in administration decided to build a’Peace Power Plant’, a combined thermal power plant, in Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi-do or DMZ, in the name of’Medium and Long-Term Cooperation Plan for North Korea Support.’

In addition, suspicion has been raised in the DMZ that the government has reviewed a plan to build a nuclear power plant. In 2020, Sawon Kim conducted an audit of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, and found that there was a’DMZ nuclear power plant construction plan’ in the’deleted document’ related to the North Korean nuclear power plant by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.

“Kwon Chil-seung is the key person of his family… Did you have prior rapport with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy?”

Candidate Kwon stated that in relation to the government’s proposal, it was based on the’promotional issue of cooperation with North Korea’ submitted by Korea East-West Power, an agency under the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy.

In addition, Candidate Kwon said in a press release that the government wanted to build a peace power plant in North Korea. “Peace Power Plant is a 500MW-class power plant that uses liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel, and aims to supply power to build industrial infrastructure in North Korea. I’m doing it,” he explained.

Furthermore, Candidate Kwon said, “As a long-term task, the government is also promoting the construction of new thermal power plants centered on major industrial districts for the economic growth of North Korea.” Highly insisted.

Rep. Ja-geun Koo, who received a press release from Kwon’s past, said, “Candidate Kwon said that in 2018, the Moon Jae-in administration had established plans for a peaceful power plant and thermal power plant to support power shortages against North Korea.” It is necessary to thoroughly understand whether there was some kind of rapport with the Blue House and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy in relation to the distribution of press releases.”

Regarding the controversy about the promotion of the peace power plant, it was revealed that East-West Power has hurried to evolve, saying, “It was an idea that was self-examined in preparation for the time when the conditions for inter-Korean economic cooperation were met in East-West Power.”

Meanwhile, Rep. Lee Chul-gyu, secretary of the people’s power of the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said on the MBC radio’Kim Jong-bae’s attention’ that the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy explained that it was a’simple idea’ over the suspicion of nuclear power in North Korea. At that time, what kind of public official would dare to come up with an idea to promote the construction of a nuclear power plant in North Korea (without orders from the superiors).”

Rep. Lee stressed, “It is enough for the Blue House to disclose the USB contents even now,” even in the refutation of the passport that “there was no content of nuclear power in USB.”