Let's face it Dennis Rodman is beyond stupid. How could not after making this statement
Dennis Rodman maybe a former NBA player and winner of 5 championships but that does not excuse his sudden "love" for all things Kim-Jong un.
Kim-Jung un is a third generation dictator of North Korea whose policies are not meant to benefit that nations citizenry but its military.
During the 1990's millions of North Koreans starved to death after they suffered a devastating series of natural disasters. While most national governments would under these dire circumstances give aid to its citizens, then leader Kim-Jong il did just the opposite continuing to funnel its scarce financial resources to the military.
Kim-Jung un's government has standing orders for its military and boarder guards to shoot anyone who tries to escape to China and for those who do make it but are subsequently captured they are forcibly repatriated by the Chinese government where their is execution awaiting them along with the imprisonment of their entire family in a North Korean gulag.
Does Dennis Rodman care? Of course not he gets to hang with a dictator and discuss the Chicago Bulls teams from the 90's which won 3 NBA championships .
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Leaving NKorea, Rodman calls Kims 'great leaders'
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Ending his unexpected round of basketball diplomacy in North Korea on Friday, ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman called leader Kim Jong Un an "awesome guy" and said his father and grandfather were "great leaders."
Rodman, the highest-profile American to meet Kim since he inherited power from father Kim Jong Il in 2011, watched a basketball game with the authoritarian leader Thursday and later drank and dined on sushi with him.
At Pyongyang's Sunan airport on his way to Beijing, Rodman said it was "amazing" that the North Koreans were "so honest." He added that Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, North Korea's founder, "were great leaders."
Dennis Rodman maybe a former NBA player and winner of 5 championships but that does not excuse his sudden "love" for all things Kim-Jong un.
Kim-Jung un is a third generation dictator of North Korea whose policies are not meant to benefit that nations citizenry but its military.
During the 1990's millions of North Koreans starved to death after they suffered a devastating series of natural disasters. While most national governments would under these dire circumstances give aid to its citizens, then leader Kim-Jong il did just the opposite continuing to funnel its scarce financial resources to the military.
Kim-Jung un's government has standing orders for its military and boarder guards to shoot anyone who tries to escape to China and for those who do make it but are subsequently captured they are forcibly repatriated by the Chinese government where their is execution awaiting them along with the imprisonment of their entire family in a North Korean gulag.
Does Dennis Rodman care? Of course not he gets to hang with a dictator and discuss the Chicago Bulls teams from the 90's which won 3 NBA championships .
"You have a friend for life," Rodman told Kim before a crowd of thousands at a gymnasium where they sat side by side, 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.
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The unlikely encounter makes Rodman the most high-profile American to meet Kim since the young North Korean leader 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 a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a "hostile" policy toward the North.
Kim, a diehard basketball fan, told the former Chicago Bulls star he hoped the visit would break the ice between the United States and North Korea, VICE founder Shane Smithsaid.
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