Korean Captain: Ton Vessel

korean captain: While officials were still gathering details on what happened, they were sure that the vessel wasn't hijacked, according to a ministry official, who didn't want to be named, citing office rules, according to The Chronicle Herald. Hours earlier, South Korea's military said it dispatched its anti-piracy Cheonghae Unit to the area after the 234-ton vessel, which had a crew of three South Koreans and 18 Indonesians catching squid, lost contact after relaying it was being followed by a suspected pirate vessel. Seoul's Foreign Ministry said it planned to close the case after the vessel's South Korean captain confirmed the safety of his crew in a telephone call with a South Korean business partner. Upon Seoul's request, patrol aircraft from India, Germany and Japan also searched the area, and South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered related government agencies and the military to invest full efforts into the rescue operation, so that not a single life is lost, according to his office. The vessel's captain, chief engineer and boatswain were South Korean nationals, the Foreign Ministry said. The fishing vessel was registered in Mongolia and owned by an ethnic Korean businessman living in South Africa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.