BBC apologises to university for undercover trip to North Korea


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  • Tuesday, 18 Mar 2014

A BBC umbrella protects broadcast equipment outside the BBC's New Broadcasting House in London December 19, 2012. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC apologised on Monday to a leading British university for sending two undercover reporters to accompany an academic trip to North Korea, after an internal investigation found that it had failed to inform students of the potential risks.

The publicly funded BBC joined the trip to North Korea for students and post-graduates of the London School of Economics (LSE) in March 2013.

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