{"id":242689,"date":"2016-05-10T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-kicks-out-bbc-team-over-non-objective-reporting\/"},"modified":"2016-05-10T16:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:03:53","slug":"north-korea-kicks-out-bbc-team-over-non-objective-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/north-korea-kicks-out-bbc-team-over-non-objective-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea kicks out BBC team over &#039;non-objective reporting&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"74\">\n<p><strong>BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team have been expelled from North Korea for covering distorted facts and \u201cspeaking ill\u201d of the system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wingfield-Hayes and producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were kicked out from Pyongyang on Monday, the broadcaster and a North Korean official said.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s National Peace Committee Secretary General O Ryong-il said at a press conference on Monday that the BBC reporter had been expelled for \u201cattacking the DPRK system and non-objective reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wingfield-Hayes\u2019s coverage of distorted facts and \u201cspoke ill of the system and the leadership of the country,\u201d he also said.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean official noted that Wingfield-Hayes was expelled after writing an apology and would not be readmitted into the North.<\/p>\n<p>The three were about to leave North Korea on Friday, but were stopped at the airport and taken into detention.<\/p>\n<p>Wingfield-Hayes \u201cwas taken to a hotel and interrogated by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/09\/464735\/North-Korea-BBC-Sudworth-Pyongyang-Beijing-DPRK-WingfieldHayes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team have been expelled from North Korea for covering distorted facts and \u201cspeaking ill\u201d of the system. Wingfield-Hayes and producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were kicked out from Pyongyang on Monday, the broadcaster and a North Korean official said. North Korea\u2019s National Peace Committee Secretary General O [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}