[Niall]

I can understand the concern of the LSE, but the flagrant disregard by the DPRK of basic human rights and freedoms is something that needs to be exposed, even if it is through an undercover journalist on a regular tourist trip.

I really don't think that most people understand the scale of wrongdoing that the regime does over there, and moreover I'd say the media disconnects when it reports about that country. You only hear about their provocative acts, and not the hundreds of thousands of people they have hauled up in work camps across the nation, who are subject to many forms of cruel and inhumane torture. Factor in the near constant state-induced famine, constant bombardment of propaganda in all forms possible, lack of electricity, constant threat of arrest/execution at any time and then it becomes obvious to me at least, that this is something that should be rubbed in everyone's faces. People should be shown the cruel existence the North Koreans are forced into.

And besides, they all got out in the end didn't they? I know it was dangerous of the BBC to do what they did, but then again going to North Korea at all is a very dangerous move, isn't it?