May 09,2016:As per the British broadcaster said,” A BBC reporter in North Korea was arrested and orderly disqualified from the country over his reporting in the run-up to a rare ruling party congress.”

BBC said on its website, “he reporter, Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, was detained on Friday at Pyongyang airport as he was leaving the country with two other BBC staff”

He was then questioned alone for eight hours, it added.

"The team have now been taken to the airport," it said.The three-person BBC group was in North Korea ahead of the party congress that began Friday, associated a allocation of Nobel prize laureates leading a research trip.