The former American basketball player Dennis Rodman leaves for five days to the Stalinist North Korea. Colorful athlete is basketball country training. That the BBC reported Thursday.
Rodman stamped his visits to the dictatorship rather as "basketball diplomacy '. The former basketball player sees ruler Kim Jong-un as a "friend for life." The visit of Rodman is not particularly the timing though. The mentor of dictator Kim, his uncle Jang Song-thaek (67), was recently executed. According to experts, it is a political landslide in the closed country. However, Rodman insists nothing to do with politics do have. "I'm going down for a game of basketball and to have fun," he told Reuters. It is intended that Rodman also organizes a friendly match between North Korea and former players from the American basketball league. The two teams would meet on January 8, when Kim Jong-un 31 years. During his last visit to North Korea, in September, visited Kim Rodman and his wife Ri Sol-ju. He then said that Kim had a daughter named Ju-ae.
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