BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was arrested on Friday in Pyongyang and to be expelled from North Korea for its recent reports on the ruling congress held in the communist country ‘Party of Korea.
The American CNN said Monday on Twitter that the government of North Korean journalist arrested for “disrespectful reports.”
– Correspondent BBC arrested at the airport in Pyongyang and interrogated in connection with the incorrect description of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un – clarified CNN correspondent Will Ripley.
BBC reports on its website that Wingfield-Hayes was arrested on Friday in the company of two other employees of the British broadcaster, producer on and cameraman, at a time when he had to leave North Korea; was interrogated for eight hours.
“practiced biased journalism”
The Chinese news agency Xinhua writes, citing a representative of the North Korean authorities that the journalist was arrested for improper relationship. Xinhua added that the national committee. Room North Korea held a Monday press conference to explain that a British journalist – as recognized – “attacked the system of the Korean People’s Democratic Republic” and practiced “biased journalism.”
Secretary General of the committee. the room Riong Il told a press conference that the British journalist misrepresent the facts, “he criticized the system and leadership” of North Korea – reports the Associated Press. He added that Wingfield-Hayes wrote an apology and be expelled from North Korea, where he could never have come.
The team BBC arrived in Pyongyang a few days before launched on May 6 the first 36 years congress of the ruling Labour Party Korea; accompanied the visit of a delegation of Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Author: Klo // gak / PAP
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