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Dennis Rodman says heading back to N.Korea

Agence France-PresseMay 11, 2013 23:53
Basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman said he plans a second trip to North Korea to try to use his budding friendship with leader Kim Jong-Un to free a jailed American, in an interview aired Friday. The flamboyant basketball legend, approached by celebrity news website TMZ as he walked on a Los Angeles street Thursday, said he would return to North Korea on August 1 on a mission to release jailed tour organizer Kenneth Bae. "I'll be back over there. I'm going to try to get the guy out," the heavily tattooed Rodman said in between waving to well-wishers.

In Rodman, a controversial US opening to N. Korea

March 1, 2013 22:30
Reclusive North Korea in the past month refused to hear foreign entreaties not to test a nuclear bomb, but its leader found time to entertain the mercurial basketball hall-of-famer Dennis Rodman. The latest private trip by a high-profile American to North Korea has triggered scorn in much of Washington, which fears undercutting the message to the totalitarian state that it is isolated and must change behavior.

Rodman lauds N. Korea's 'awesome' Kim Jong-Un

March 1, 2013 20:30
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman lauded North Korea's new ruler as an "awesome kid" and his father and grandfather as "great leaders" at the end of his basketball diplomacy mission to Pyongyang. At a time of high US-North Korea tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test, the man who once dated Madonna became the most high-profile American to meet Kim Jong-Un, with whom he watched a basketball match.

UPDATE 1-Former U.S. basketball star Rodman calls N.Korean leader 'awesome kid'

March 1, 2013 17:16
(Adds State Department reaction) BEIJING, March 1 (Reuters) - Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman emerged from four days in North Korea on Friday, calling the leader of the reclusive country "an awesome kid". Rodman, known for his tattoos, body piercings and flamboyance, was in North Korea to film a sports documentary, and watched a basketball game alongside the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.

Dennis Rodman calls North Korean leader "an awesome kid"

March 1, 2013 09:01
BEIJING, March 1 (Reuters) - Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman emerged from four days in North Korea on Friday, calling the leader of the reclusive country "an awesome kid". Rodman, known for his tattoos, body piercings and flamboyance, was in North Korea to film a sports documentary, and watched a basketball game alongside the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.

Rodman lauds N. Korea's 'awesome' Kim Jong-Un

March 1, 2013 07:16
Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman lauded North Korea's new leader as an "awesome kid" on Friday, following an unprecedented meeting with Kim Jong-Un at a basketball game in Pyongyang. At a time of heightened US-North Korean tensions following Pyongyang's recent nuclear test, the man who once dated Madonna has become the most high-profile American to meet the leader of the impoverished, isolated state.

N. Korea's Kim, Rodman watch basketball game: Xinhua

February 28, 2013 10:00
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un watched a basketball game with former Chicago Bulls' star Dennis Rodman on Thursday, Chinese state media reported. In a dispatch from Pyongyang, China's official Xinhua news agency said that Kim and Rodman watched a game consisting of players from North Korea and the Harlem Globetrotters, a famed goodwill team from the United States. Xinhua, which has a bureau in the North Korean capital, cited unidentified witnesses for its account.

Dennis Rodman gets his "Gangnam Style" mixed up in Pyongyang

February 26, 2013 20:30
SEOUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Former NBA star Dennis Rodman appears to have mixed up his Koreas on a visit to Pyongyang, tweeting that he expected to run into South Korean rapper Psy on his trip to the North. Rodman, famed for his tattoos, piercings and radical hair colours from his time on court, arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to shoot some hoops and a documentary to be aired on HBO in April. "Maybe I'll run into the Gangnam Style dude while I'm here," the 51-year old tweeted (@dennisrodman) after his arrival.

UPDATE 2-U.S. ex-basketball player Rodman arrives in North Korea

February 26, 2013 17:01
SEOUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Retired U.S. basketball player Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to film a television documentary with representatives of the Harlem Globetrotters celebrity team, North Korean state television reported. Rodman, now 51 years old, won five NBA championships in his prime, achieving a mix of fame and notoriety for his on- and off-court antics.

Rodman in N. Korea on 'basketball diplomacy' trip

February 26, 2013 16:01
Flamboyant retired NBA star Dennis Rodman, known as much for his piercings and tattoos as for his court skills, arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to bring it a bit of "basketball diplomacy." The 51-year-old Hall of Famer, nicknamed "The Worm" and famed for his changing hair color, off-court antics and dating Madonna, landed in the isolated state with tensions high following the North's third nuclear test.
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