[국제]Submarine crash accident in Japan…’reporting cell phone’ only after 3 and a half hours

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A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine collides with a civilian ship.

The accident was also a problem, but as the fact that the report was made on a mobile phone after three and a half hours became known, the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s crisis management was on the cutting board.

Correspondent Lee Kyung-ah reports from Tokyo.

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The submarine’s right-hand dive is bent badly.

The accident was caused by the Marine Self-Defense Force’s submarine’Soryu’.

While floating above the water in the southern sea of ​​Kochi Prefecture, Japan, it collided with a 50,000-ton Hong Kong ship.

At the time, I checked this ship with a periscope, but I couldn’t escape and crashed.

There was no such damage to civilian ships, but part of the submarine’s hull was damaged and three crew members were injured.

[기시 노부오 / 일본 방위성 장관 : 이번 사고로 국민에게 큰 심려를 끼쳤습니다. 대단히 죄송하게 생각합니다.]

The accident itself is also a problem, but the reporting process also revealed loopholes.

Reports were delayed by three and a half hours, as all communication functions in the submarine were cut off in a crash.

It also moved to an area where communication was possible and was only able to report on a mobile phone.

As this situation became known, it was pointed out that there was a problem with the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s crisis management.

[가토 가츠노부 / 일본 관방장관 : 복수의 통신수단이 일시적으로 모두 중단된 그 자체가 개선해야 할 과제라고 생각합니다.강한 문제 의식을 갖고 검토해야 할 것입니다.]

Hiroshi Yamamura, head of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, admitted at a press conference, “We could not assume a situation where all communications would be cut off.”

He said, “This is unacceptable,” he said.

We are also investigating whether this accident occurred during training after regular inspections were human resources or technical defects.

The Maritime Security Administration sends an investigation team of 40 people to the site to check the damaged hull.

This is Kyungah Lee from YTN in Tokyo.

[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]

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