NIT – Former NBA star Dennis Rodman took a team of ex-NBA players to Pyongyang, North Korea, for a basketball game last week, and met with the country’s supreme leader, Kim Jung Un.
In a video released Monday, January 13th, Rodman is pictured with Un, showing him a table with bottles of his new line of vodka, called Bad Ass Vodka. The two are seen laughing and embracing. Thousands of Un’s people are locked in gulags at this time, and much of the populace is starving. Rodman sang happy birthday to Un.
Rodman lead the team that included former NBA players Craig Hodges, Kenny Anderson, Doug Christie, Charles D. Smith, Cliff Robinson, and Vin Baker. The game was part of a celebration marking Kim Jong Un’s birthday.
Rodman calls his trips to North Korea, listed by the United States as a terrorist nation and which it is still technically at war with, “basketball diplomacy.” He has shrugged off the recent execution of Kim’s uncle.
The men who played for Rodman say that North Korea did not pay them to come and play basketball. North Korean authorities are holding an American, Kenneth Bae, since November 2012.
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