BBC fakes London student credentials to access North Korea
Three BBC journalists have been found to have used the London School of Economics for a cover story to enter North Korea to film a Panorama documentary. - The Commentator has learned that the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the British publicly owned news organisation, has forged student credentials for its journalists in order that they could gain access to the secretive North Korea. An e-mail from the director of the London School of Economics (LSE) on Saturday stated that the BBC used the visit to plant three journalists inside North Korea at a risk to the university and its students on the trip. The letter states that a trip organised by the LSE's 'Grimshaw Club' was used as cover by BBC journalists without the knowledge or consent of the London university. "The School authorities had no advance knowledge of the trip or of its planning," it said.