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BBC correspondent, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been detained by North Korean authorities over an inappropriate description of leader Kim Jong-un in his report.
Media reports say the BBC correspondent was to be expelled over his coverage on the fourth day of the congress of the country’s Workers’ Party, the first in 36 years.
According to China’s Xinhua news agency citing a North Korean official, Rupert was detained for improper “reportage”.
He was detained at Pyongyang airport and interrogated for an inappropriate description of leader Kim Jong-un in in his coverage, CNN correspondent Will Ripley told the network.
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