Posted on 05/08/2016 11:21:53 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
BBC correspondent in North Korea detained over reporting
North Korea detained a BBC journalist and ordered his expulsion over his reporting, the broadcaster said on Monday, as a large group of foreign reporters cover a rare congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party.
Posted 09 May 2016 12:55 Updated 09 May 2016 13:40
PYONGYANG: North Korea detained a BBC journalist and ordered his expulsion over his reporting, the broadcaster said on Monday, as a large group of foreign reporters cover a rare congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party.
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was detained on Friday as he was about to leave the country, along with a BBC producer and cameraman, the network said. The three were on their way to the airport in Pyongyang on Monday afternoon, it said.
China's Xinhua news agency cited a North Korean official as saying the correspondent was detained for improper "reportage".
Another BBC correspondent in Pyongyang, John Sudworth, said in a broadcast report that there was "disagreement, a concern over the content of Rupert's reporting", including questioning the authenticity of a hospital.
"When he reached the airport on Friday, he was separated from the rest of his team, prevented from boarding that flight, taken to a hotel and interrogated by the security bureau here in Pyongyang before being made to sign a statement and then released, eventually allowed to rejoin us here in this hotel," Sudworth said in the report.
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He was lucky they just kicked him out of the country.
He was detained for trying to tell the truth?
I guess he’s lucky he wasn’t arrested for doing something else that commie regime doesn’t want their huddled masses to do: eat.
I sat and watched his report from Sat and Sun (at least mid-day), and he didn’t cut them any slack. It was an entire wasted trip to Pyongyang from his prospective. They were simply hustled around in buses from the hotel to some place....given some fake stuff by the NK escorts....then hustled back to the hotel.
I suspect most news agencies will just skip any future development and make up stuff on NK from a safe distance.
Just saw a BBC report from NK late last night (New York Time).Can’t recall if it said “Live” or not but it was daylight (which means it could have been live) and the reporter was middle aged and pretty close to bald.
My crap would turn white if heading to Sunan Airport to leave DPRK and I were somehow suddenly detained. Yikes.
Detained, was it? Are they saying he was detained? Or that he was detained? Damn fine reporting.
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