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Kim Jong-un has today become 31 and that should be celebrated. As befits a true dictator, the North Korean leader knew exactly what he wanted to get a match between former American professional basketball players and the North Korean sail store national team. Coincidentally, his great friend, Dennis Rodman, former basketball player. So Rodman put together sail store a team of all stars to come out. Pyongyang And if that was not enough, he also sang Happy Birthday to Kim.
Although the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium with loud applause Rodmans 14 thousand spectators singing skills reacted, the five-time NBA champion gets a lot of criticism at home. The current comments came yesterday in full swing after an interview with CNN. Or the 52-year-old athlete would work for up to fifteen years of labor camp condemned American Korean missionary Kenneth Bae? With Kim
From Rodmans response, seen in the video below (from 4:37), it appears according to our correspondent Oscar Garschagen that Rodman "still can swear very good", "no sense of diplomacy and that he certainly does not intend to occur Bae tension ". sail store
From the NBA to the White House, the family of Bae to his teammates: all of them have moved away from Rodman. "Dictator Kim Jong-un oppressed his people, let his people starve and a few celebrities think they make a good impression there and allow themselves to be used for the North Korean propaganda," sail store snorted the U.S. Congressman Eliot Engel, a Democrat.
Kim, who is known for rarely deals with foreigners, with Rodman friends since the beginning traveled to North Korea last year. The dictator was during the basketball game in the stands. The athlete played the first half of the match, but was in the second half next to Kim. Read more about Kim Jong Un
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