Korea secures UAE oil, flights to bring home stranded nationals, amid Middle East crisis

South Korea will secure oil supplies from the United Arab Emirates and the two countries will resume limited commercial flights to evacuate South Korean nationals stranded in the UAE, amid the widening conflict in the Middle East. Presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik on Friday announced that the two countries had agreed on South Korea’s emergency procurement of more than 6 million barrels of crude oil from the UAE. “The emergency import of more than 6 million barrels of UAE crude oil — more

By The Korea Herald