SEOUL COMBATIVE OVER N. KOREA NUKE POWER PLAN

South Korea's presidential office on Friday issued a rebuke to People Power opposition leader Kim Chong-in after a news report that Seoul had planned to build a nuclear plant in North Korea.

Broadcaster SBS unveiled a prosecution indictment with more than a dozen documents from the energy ministry that suggested the previously unknown project.

The documents were among 530 files 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.

Kim called the potential plan a “shocking and appalling act that abets the enemy.”

A spokesman for President Moon Jae-in, shown, accused Kim of making “irresponsible” remarks to “deceive people.” But he declined to comment when asked about whether such plans had existed, or whether Moon's office had ordered the documents deleted.