New York Times: Former basketball star Dennis Rodman is in North Korea again to visit his “friend” Kim Jong-un.
New York Times: Former basketball star Dennis Rodman is in North Korea again to visit his “friend” Kim Jong-un.
Mr. Rodman said in Beijing that he was planning a five-day visit to the North, but played down speculation that he would try to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American Christian missionary who has been jailed there since late last year after being detained on North Korean soil.
“I’m not going to North Korea to discuss freeing Kenneth Bae,” Mr. Rodman, a Basketball Hall of Fame member, told Reuters in a telephone interview. “I’m just going there on another basketball diplomacy tour.” Mr. Kim is known to be a fervent basketball fan, and the two watched a game together during Mr. Rodman’s previous visit.
