Kuala Lumpur – The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Director of Sport, John Barton, said that news reports of North Korea ‘pirating’ television signals of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa were totally inaccurate and damaging. Barton said the coverage of the World Cup for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was agreed with FIFA, the governing body of world football on 11 June 2010, with the express wish that they be allowed to watch all 64 games live if they chose. “The journalists who are reporting otherwise do not do justice to the fourth estate, nor to the accuracy that should accustom a story of this importance. The ABU is the rights holder for this event in the DPRK, and we have sub-licensed those rights to our member there, KRT, the national broadcaster. “Simply put they are totally legitimate and have been from the kickoff,” Barton said. The ABU is representing seven territories in the World Cup including Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Laos, Timor Leste, and Uzbekistan.
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