It turned out that a number of document files related to'North Korean nuclear power plant construction and inter-Korean energy cooperation' were included in the list of 530 nuclear power-related data deletions by public officials of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy who were charged with interfering with the audit of the Wolsong Unit 1 nuclear power plant.
According to the prosecution on the 29th today, officials of the Ministry of Industry, including Mr. A (53), who are accused of damage to public electronic records, violation of the Auditor's Law, or intrusion of room, deleted 530 internal data related to nuclear power plants just before the audit of the auditor.
Among them, a number of data related to North Korean nuclear power plants are also included.
In the folder titled'pohjois' in Finnish meaning North and the folder titled'Bukwonchu', which is short for'Promotion of North Korean Nuclear Power Plant', there are phased cooperation projects for the establishment of North Korean power infrastructure, the current status of the North Korean power industry, and examples of German integration. The prosecution found that it contained files, etc.
The file name, estimated as the date of creation, is stated numerically as'May 2-15, 2018', which is between the first inter-Korean summit and the second inter-Korean summit in 2018.
Although it is not relevant to the direction of the investigation of the Wolseong nuclear power plant suspicion conducted by the Daejeon District Prosecutor's Office 5 (Prosecutor Sang-Hyeon Lee), the online-centered response, "The government left nuclear power in Korea and promoted nuclear power in North Korea." There is also.
In addition, Democratic Party Rep. Yun Geon-young said on November 23 last year that the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy pushed forward a plan to build a nuclear power plant in North Korea immediately after the first inter-Korean summit in 2018. “At any moment in the inter-Korean summit There was no'won'."
Rep. Yoon served as the head of the Blue House National Planning and Situation Office.
In response to this, the Ministry of Industry showed a position that'there was never ordered or asked to report a review (related to North Korean nuclear power plants).
An official from the Ministry of Industry said, "The government interprets it as if it was asked to review something with direction, but there was no such thing," and "after the Park Geun-hye administration mentioned that'unification is a big hit', (North Korea) power or industrial facilities in preparation for unification. I reviewed how to do it."
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