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Yesterday (11th), the government supplied 200 tons of urea, which is half of the number of urea stockpiled by the military, to the private sector.
In addition, urea, which was urgently airlifted from Australia, arrived in Korea on a military transport plane.
Next is reporter Kim Jung-in.
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truck from the Army Transport Command arrives at a self-service gas station in Incheon with a notice that says urea water is out of stock.
[ruler.
Let's give it a round of applause.] The
amount of urea water that a unit in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do was stockpiling, was supplied to gas stations near Incheon Port.
[Kwanghee Choi / Truck driver: I got this after 3 hours.
(With this) I work one day.
Haru.] The
reserve of urea water released by the military yesterday to the civilian population is 200 tons, which is 45% of the total 445 tons of stockpile.
[Bu Seung-chan / Spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense: We are planning to rent it out temporarily, as long as it is not affected by the operation, and we plan to return it in kind.]
16 military units nationwide, about 30 gas stations near 5 major ports nationwide including Busan and Incheon where urea water was supplied.
Only 30 liters of import/export container trucks can be purchased per unit, which is a measure that can supply about 7,000 out of 10,000 container trucks.
The Air Force's multi-purpose aerial refueling transport aircraft, the KC330, which was put into operation for the domestic transfer of Afghan helpers in August, arrived at Gimhae Airport yesterday afternoon with 27,000 liters of urea water from Australia.
The government explained that if some of the urea water brought in this time is put into ambulances across the country first, there will be no problems in operation for at least two months.