NBA Star Dennis Rodman Gets Nasty Surprise Seconds After Showing Up In N.Korea To See Kim Jong-Un
Former NBA player Dennis Rodman certainly loves attention which is easy to see in his eccentricity on perpetual publicity stunts. After being largely out of the limelight for some time, Rodman reemerged this week to defy travel warnings and return to North Korea to visit his nuclear weapon-loving leader friend, Kim Jong-un. Although this is his fifth trip to the tightly controlled country that hates America, it’s his first since his former Celebrity Apprentice boss has been President of the United States and on the brink of war with North Korea.
Rodman is not exactly the person any country wants representing them in peace-making relations, especially when tensions are as high as they have become between the U.S. and North Korea. American warships are parked at Kim Jong-un’s door and the pint-sized communist leader has just announced this week that he is only “one step away” from launching a nuclear missile that could hit America, a statement which experts back up, according to The Sun. However, the former basketball player who strangely became friends with Kim in years past thought he was the guy to “open a door” between the two countries when his ignorance on the issues backfired on arrival.
Before landing in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, on Tuesday, the NBA bad boy was stopped in Beijing, China, on his final flight transfer. Wearing the best diplomatic duds he could come up with for the trip — a black T-shirt advertising marijuana cybercurrency used to buy and sell legalized pot — reporters swarmed him to ask a few questions before entering this dangerous territory.
When asked about his intentions with the trip, Rodman played it down while proving that despite what he says, he’s there for the apparent attention and is travelling where he was told not to go as a private citizen. “I’m just here to see some friends and have a good time,” he told reporters.
“Rodman received the red-carpet treatment on his four past trips since 2013, which generated a lot of publicity – most of it not good – and did little in terms of diplomacy. On this trip, he has already been roundly criticized by some for visiting during a time of high tensions between the U.S. and North Korea over its weapons programs and recent missile launches,” KMOV reported.
Knowing what he was about to go into, as one of the only people who personally knows both nuclear-armed leaders, a reporter in Beijing asked the NBA star if Trump knew about this particular trip.
“Well, I’m pretty sure he’s pretty much happy with the fact that I’m over here trying to accomplish something that we both need,” Rodman said. The obvious dangers he faces in going there ever, but at this particular time, is that he could be held captive and tortured like several other Americans have recently. When asked about his fellow Americans currently detained and if he’s concerned about them or the same happening to him, his response was simply that it’s “not my purpose right now.”