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		</div><p>A BBC reporter, a producer and a cameraman have been detained in North Korea and are being expelled from the country, the BBC has said.</p>
<p>Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were detained on Friday as they were about to leave the reclusive communist state.</p>
<p>Mr Wingfield-Hayes was questioned for eight hours and made to sign a statement by North Korean officials, the corporation said.</p>
<p>The team has now been taken to the airport.</p>
<p>All three were in Pyongyang ahead of the Workers Party Congress. They were accompanying a delegation of Nobel prize laureates on a research trip.</p>
<p>Another BBC journalist, Stephen Evans, the Seoul correspondent, is still in Pyongyang.</p>
<p>He said the North Korean leadership was displeased with their reports.</p>
<p>Mr Evans said Mr Wingfield-Hayes was singled out over some of his reports for TV and online.</p>
<p>Speaking live to Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme he said: &#8220;They were, as I understand, at the airport waiting to get on a flight.<br />
&#8220;Just as they were about to board the flight, Rupert was held back.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was then taken to a hotel, a separate hotel to where we were and interrogated for eight hours.&#8221;</p>
<p>An interrogator told Mr Wingfield-Hayes he had been the official to prosecute Kenneth Bae &#8211; a Korean-American missionary who was sentenced to 15 years&#8217; hard labour in the country.</p>
<p>Mr Evans said that Mr Wingfield-Hayes was told to sign a confession confirming that his work had been inaccurate and the authorities were particularly concerned about two incidents.</p>
<p>In one, Mr Wingfield-Hayes had questioned whether a visit by VIPs to a hospital had been staged by the authorities to make it seem better than it was, and another one when a cameraman was asked to delete pictures.</p>
<p>He said he believed his three colleagues were currently at the airport waiting to leave.</p>
<p>O Ryong Il, secretary-general of the North Korea&#8217;s National Peace Committee, said news coverage by Mr Wingfield-Hayes distorted facts and &#8220;spoke ill of the system and the leadership of the country&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said Mr Wingfield-Hayes wrote an apology, was being expelled and would never again be admitted into the country.</p>
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