{"id":15125,"date":"2026-04-02T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/south-koreas-lee-urges-prompt-passage-of-17-billion-extra-budget-amid-middle-east-energy-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:40:08","slug":"south-koreas-lee-urges-prompt-passage-of-17-billion-extra-budget-amid-middle-east-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/south-koreas-lee-urges-prompt-passage-of-17-billion-extra-budget-amid-middle-east-energy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#039;s Lee Urges Prompt Passage of $17 Billion Extra Budget Amid Middle East Energy Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>SEOUL, April 2 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060South \u2060Korean President \u2060Lee Jae Myung on Thursday urged parliament to promptly \u200cpass a 26.2 \u200ctrillion won ($17.3 \u2060billion) \u2060supplementary budget to shore up the economy amid &#8220;the worst energy security threat&#8221; posed by the Middle East crisis. &#8220;Even if the war \u2060ends &#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2026-04-02\/south-koreas-lee-urges-prompt-passage-of-17-billion-extra-budget-amid-middle-east-energy-crisis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, April 2 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060South \u2060Korean President \u2060Lee Jae Myung on Thursday urged&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-1190"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}