EX-NBA STAR Dennis Rodman met North Korea’s Kim Jong Un today on the third day of his improbable journey to Pyongyang, telling the leader “You have a friend for life,” a delegation spokesman said.
Rodman and Kim sat side by side at an exhibition game in Pyongyang, chatting as they watched players from North Korea and the U.S. play on mixed teams, Alex Detrick, a spokesman for the New York-based VICE media company, told The Associated Press.
Kim, a diehard basketball fan, told Rodman he hoped the visit would break the ice between the United States and North Korea, Detrick said. Kim later invited the Americans to dinner.
The encounter makes Rodman the most high-profile American to meet with the young North Korean leader since Kim took power in December 2011, and takes place against a backdrop of tension between Washington and Pyongyang.
North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was aimed at sending a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a “hostile” policy toward the North. The two countries fought each other during the Korean War, and do not have diplomatic relations.
Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the professional Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and a production crew to shoot a documentary for a new HBO TV series.
Freak, meet Freak.
Dennis Rodman doing his bit for world peace!
I can see it now both lads on the lash next morning Kim goes to Rodman -we had a sick night bitches.
Were is Team America: World Police when you need them?
With lips that size, Rodman could suck up every nuclear warhead North Korea has in its arsenal & transport them safely back to the old U S of A.
lol Dennis, its a pity people don’t get the funny side of it!
sorry declan.
Kim. This is Osama. Dennis is your last warning. Keep going and we will get Canada to send Justin next.
How funny would it be if Rodmen was the one to bring piece to North Korea and the west.
Gerard Depardieu should join up and make a happy 3-some.
Rodman is in fact on the LEFT not the right.
Careful now.
Of course in Kims world a life is a considerably shorter length of time.
Hope he didn’t take him literally.