BBC Journalist To Be Expelled From North Korea For 'Disrespectful' Reporting, 2 Others Detained

Three BBC journalists have been detained in North Korea and one will be expelled from the country for 'disrespectful' reporting. Tokyo correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew Goddard were held at Pyongyang Airport on Friday, BBC reports.

Wingfield-Hayes was questioned for eight hours and made to sign a statement, the report further said. He was accused of inappropriately describing North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-un in a report for BBC News.

Wingfield-Hayes was in the country for the country's Workers' Party congress - the first in 36 years. He will be kicked out of North Korea and will never be allowed to return, BBC states.

After four years of top-level reshuffles, purges and executions, Kim will formally cement his unassailable status as North Korea's supreme leader at the landmark ruling party congress.