Political row intensifies over suspicions of North Korea s nuclear plant plan
Posted : 2021-01-31 16:04
Updated : 2021-02-01 11:11
Na Kyung-won, third from left, a Seoul mayoral by-election hopeful of the main opposition People Power Party, joins civic activists advocating nuclear energy during a protest in front of Cheong Wa Dae, Sunday. Na asked President Moon Jae-in and his government to clarify allegations that they attempted to help North Korea build a nuclear power plant, countering Moon s nuclear energy phase-out policy. Yonhap
By Yi Whan-woo
Controversy is escalating over whether the government clandestinely attempted to help North Korea build a nuclear power plant in 2018 during a short-lived reconciliatory mood between the two Koreas.
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SEOUL South Korea’s presidential office on Friday issued a rebuke to an opposition leader who accused it of “abetting the enemy” after a news report that Seoul had planned to build a nuclear plant in North Korea.
Local broadcaster SBS unveiled a prosecution indictment listing more than a dozen documents from the energy ministry that suggested a previously unknown project to set up a nuclear plant in North Korea.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s presidential office on Friday issued a rebuke to an opposition leader who accused it of “abetting the enemy” after a news report that Seoul had planned to build a nuclear plant in North Korea.
Local broadcaster SBS unveiled a prosecution indictment listing more than a dozen documents from the energy ministry that suggested a previously unknown project to set up a nuclear plant in North Korea.
The documents were among 530 files that prosecutors say the ministry had illegally deleted to conceal that it had distorted feasibility studies to shut down a reactor in South Korea, the report said.
Korean adoptees demand apology from President Moon
Posted : 2021-01-26 16:34
Updated : 2021-01-27 10:15
A group of overseas Korean adoptees has joined an online campaigning to protest President Moon Jae-in s controversial remarks during his New Year press conference that adoptive parents should be allowed to cancel their adoptions or change the child if they don t get along well. Kara Bos, or Kang Mi-suk, a Korean American adoptee now living in Amsterdam with her family, is participating in the campaign, promoting images of overseas Korean adoptees with the hashtag #NotAThing. The other petitioners included Kevin Omans, Liat Shapiro, Cam Lee and Allison Park. Courtesy of Kang Mi-suk