PYONGYANG –
Former basketball star Dennis Rodman is back in North Korea to visit dictator Kim Jong-un, with whom he spent some years friends.
“I’m just trying to open the door”, he told journalists at the airport of Beijing. Rodman is traveling with the knowledge of the American government to the country, but doing that as a private person.
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The tensions between the United States and North Korea were the last time quite a bit by rakettesten of the stalinist country and hard words of the American president Trump.
“I’m pretty sure Trump is happy with the fact that I’m here to do something to achieve what we both needed,” said Rodman.
In 2013 Rodman also already in North Korea with his friend Kim Jong-un.
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During Rodmans first visit to Kim Jong-un in 2013 called Trump, the eccentric ex-basketball player ’smart’. “You look at the world, which explodes around us,” said Trump when in an interview with Fox News, “Maybe Dennis is a lot better than what we have.”
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Trump knows Rodman also of his reality show The Celebrity Apprentice. Rodman was in 2013, a candidate in the program. Later it was suggested that the two together to North Korea would travel, but that was denied by Trump.
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The journey of Rodman is sponsored by a company that provides a digital means of payment provides for the legal wietindustrie. An earlier trip was paid by a betting office.
Headed back to North Korea. Thank you https://t.co/zBtIFz1QBr for sponsoring my mission. I’ll discuss when I return. https://t.co/oCEsSvI90B
— Dennis Rodman (@dennisrodman)
June 13, 2017