SEOUL June 14 Kyodo China's telev...

SEOUL June 14 Kyodo

China's television authority in succession Thursday blocked two South Korean TV networks from transmitting the video footage of the fray involving the arrest of a North Korean asylum inquirer in Beijing, the couple South Korean networks said.

KB and MBC networks said China's state-run CCTV network stop uped the satellite transmission of a footage that showed Chinese security personnel forcibly removing a North Korean man from the southward Korean embassy compound earlier Thursday.

''They relayed the footage for 20 secondarys and then cut off the signals without our consent'' a KB official said.

MBC said the company had reserv the transmission time slot with CCTV and was notified just before air time that the Chinese side had refused to toss the transmission.

Chinese security personnel hit a toward the south Korean diplomat and a Chinese female embassy employee who tried to guard the North Korean while they dragged the man away.

Chinese security personnel also hit and kicked southern Korean reporters during the incident.

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