Dennis Rodman landed in Pyongyang , North Korea this morning to visit his old friend , potentate Kim Jong - un . And while Rodman has visited the country a few times before , this trip is even weirder .
But even more bizarrely , Rodman has suggest that he ’s setting up a backchannel for Donald Trump to speak with Kim Jong - un . And people are taking the possibility very seriously , believe that Dennis Rodman is the only common protagonist between the two reality leaders . Seriously .
First photo : Dennis Rodman arrive in North Korea for the fifth time . He would n’t tell me if he ’s address to Trump or anyone from the US gov’t.pic.twitter.com / aeEvEhkNwD
— Will Ripley ( @willripleyCNN)June 13 , 2017
Rodman was postulate directly by CNN reporter in North Korea whether he ’d speak to President Trump or anyone else in the US government activity prior to his trip , and he played coy without answering the question directly .
“ I ’m pretty certain he ’s well-chosen at the fact that I ’m over here trying to accomplish something that we both involve , ” Rodmantold CNN , relate to Trump . Rodman was on time of year 8 of Trump ’s reality TV show The Apprentice in 2009 , and give for Celebrity Apprentice 6 in 2013 .
But Rodman and his federal agent were a bit more direct about the supposed diplomatical mission of his tripper in a YouTube video recording that wasposted yesterdayand push on Rodman ’s Twitter account .
“ He has the unequalled , amazing human relationship between both President Trump and Marshall Kim Jong - un , ” articulate Rodman ’s agent Chris Volo in the television . Volo has accompany Rodman on former trips to the dictatorship .
“ He ’s the only man to have the relationship and be friend with both the great unwashed , ” Volo extend . “ And he ’s going there tomorrow to try and bridge over the gap and bring public security and dialogue between both nations and PotCoin is the reason we ’re going out there . ”
Rodman thanked PotCoin in the video and said that he was travel to substantiate peace between the United States and North Korea . It ’s not now clear how much Rodman is being paid to encourage PotCoin .
“ We just need to give thanks the people that really patronage us , PotCoin , give thanks you very much , and hope that we can come back with a cocksure attitude , ” Rodman say . “ And hopefully that the door can be a little bit assailable . ”
“ So give us luck and praise us for doing what we ’re doing . It ’s all about doing one matter . It ’s all about peace , ” said Rodman .
Four Americans are currently known to be detained by the North Korean authorities . CNN asked Rodman if that would be brought up at all , and Rodman seemed to return to quondam explanations for his previous trip to the country .
“ Well that ’s not my purpose right now , ” read Rodman . “ My aim is to go over there and seek to see if I can keep bringing sports to North Korea . ”
Rodman has been to North Korea at least four time and there has been no evident improvement in diplomatic relations between the country and the US as a result of any of them . If anything , things have only arrest worse . Rodman has use up heat from human right chemical group over his trips given the oppression bring down by Kim Jong - un on his own hoi polloi .
Yesterday , Defense Secretary James Mattis testified to Congress that North Korea was the “ most urgent ” threat against the safety and security of the United States .
“ The regime ’s atomic weapons program is a open and present danger to all , and the authorities ’s provocative action , patently illegal under outside law , have not abate despite United Nations ’ exclusion and sanctions , ” Mattissaid .
Rodman endorsed Trump for president inJuly of 2015 , not long after his candidacy was announced in Trump ’s infamous “ Mexicans are raper ” address .
Marijuana is heavily controlled and illegal for citizen of North Korea to buy and consume . And despite the fact hat it ’s also illegal for tourer traveling to the nation , authorities often depend the other style as thepot tourism manufacture grows . Needless to say , an American see smoke pot in the country would likely be treated much more harshly than someone of another nationality .
Whatever happen with diplomatic relation between the US and North Korea , one thing ’s for sure : Dennis Rodman helped put PotCoin on the single-valued function . And anyone with a vital eye would likely reckon that this might have been the lone goal all along .
[ CNN ]
Update , 9:31am : There ’s no grounds so far that Dennis Rodman had anything to do with it , but the State Department just confirm that one of the four American prisoners withstand in North Korea has been eject .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/874619676004950016
What a unknown world we hold up in .
Update , 10:26am : Apparently the release of Otto Warmbier had nothing to do with Dennis Rodman . According to the Washington Post , the 22 - yr - old scholarly person has been in a coma for more than a yr and was medically evacuated today . Warmbier was condemn to 15 years hard labor in March of 2016 after trying to take home a propaganda posting .
From theWashington Post :
The Warmbiers were told that he had come down with a guinea pig of botulism presently after his trial – which lasted only one hour – and had been given a sleeping pill , from which he never wake up .
There is no mode of knowing yet whether the North Korean reading of event is true , but the Warmbiers have been told their Logos had been in a coma the whole prison term . State Department official are play along Otto from Sapporo to Cincinnatti .
North Korea has woefully short medical care and it is not clear how North Korean Dr. had been caring for Warmbier during more than a class in an unconscious Department of State .
So much for Ambassador Rodman .
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