KBS Journalists Deported From Singapore for Trespassing at North Korean Ambassador’s Residence

Singapore is well known for a being a strict rule of law country and some KBS reporters just found that out:

Police check a car entering the Shangri-La Hotel at the hotel’s entrance on June 3. Singapore has tightened security arrangements in and around the Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit venue and hotels ahead of the June 12 meeting. / Korea Times photo by Jeong Min-seung

Two South Korean journalists will be expelled from Singapore Saturday for trespassing into the residence of the North Korean ambassador to Singapore, according to multiple sources, Saturday.

They arrived in Singapore a week ago ahead of the historic summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12.

“The Singapore Police Force has decided to expel two Korean journalists over the criminal tresspass,” a source close to the police told The Korea Times asking not to be named.

The decision came a day after the police said in a statement Friday that they were investigating three journalists representing Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) and their interpreter after receiving a report of a case of criminal trespass at about 3.50pm,Thursday.

Among them, the two journalists from KBS who entered the residence without permission were arrested on site.

“There is another man from KBS involved in the incident but he is not subject to punishment because he was waiting outside of the residence,” he added. “Still, he will voluntarily have to leave Singapore.”  [Korea Times]

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n2guns
n2guns
6 years ago

“Still, he will *voluntarily have* to leave Singapore.”

Mcgeehee
Mcgeehee
6 years ago

…versus forcibly escorted to a plane with a gun to his head.

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

About damn time. They have trespassed so many times in Europe hunting for Choi Soon sil and got away with it.

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