With which University did a Panorama reporter travel to North Korea to make an undercover film?
John Sweeney (journalist) also revealed that an agent for the North Korean government had emailed threats to the LSE, which ostensibly motivated the LSE to take action against the BBC publicly. An LSE spokesman denied this. The programme was watched by 5.06 million people making it the number 1 show in its time slot and the second most watched show of the night. The programme formed the basis of a book, "North Korea Undercover", published in November 2013. Sweeney was the presenter of a controversial Panorama about the ex "News of the World" undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood called "Fake Sheikh: Exposed". The Attorney
LSE Students' Union nuclear weapons, Grimshaw was caught in a maelstrom over a BBC Panorama documentary on North Korea, filmed inside the DPRK. The 'academic trip' caused international media attention, because an undercover BBC journalist, accompanied by a film crew, was posing as a doctoral student. There was a heated debate on if this had unreasonably put the students' lives in jeopardy had the reporter been exposed. Whether the LSESU or LSE themselves had sanctioned the reporter going undercover remains unclear. There was also fear of reprisals from North Korean agents, and a discussion on if the Panorama episode should be broadcast at