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Dennis Rodman Visits Kim Jong-un in North Korea : The New Yorker
The United States new top diplomat made his first official trip overseas last week, becoming the highest-profile American to visit with a young and enigmatic totalitarian dictator since the dictator was installed in power following the death of his father. After his trip, the diplomat, who, years before, had been a talented athlete, and who once wore a wedding dress to a press event promoting his autobiography, returned home and explained the nuances of the leaders worldview to a high-ranking member of a recent Presidential Administration who now hosts a morning variety show. The diplomat brought good news: the dictator had promised peace, which in translation came out as, I dont want to do war. I dont want to do war.
This is not, of course, an excerpt from the latest satirical novel about a cruelly absurd dystopian future, but, instead, a news item from the dystopian satire that is our real present. Dennis Rodman, the basketball player, seemingly still as bad as he wants to be years after his agent-provocateur time, spent last week in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as the guest of honor of Kim Jong-un, taking in an exhibition basketball game featuring members of the Harlem Globetrotters, and, later, reportedly being feted by Kim at a party that seems to have met Rodmans high standards. The trip was organized by Vice magazine and HBO as part of a television series that will début in April. Speaking to George Stephanopoulos yesterday, Rodman called Kim an awesome guy, but later tempered his praise slightly: Hes a good guy to me as a person to person, hes my friend. I dont condone what he does.
There have been calls for U.S. intelligence agencies to debrief Rodman on the particulars of his trip, but based on his interview with Stephanopoulos, its not clear that Rodman would have anything of value to share. The State Department, whose own top official, John Kerry, was making his first international tour as Secretary of State last week, resisted condemning the visit, but a spokesman nonetheless added, in a voice of reason, Youve got the regime spending money to wine and dine foreign visitors, when they should be feeding their own people.
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Dennis Rodman Visits Kim Jong-un in North Korea : The New Yorker