Post by warrior1972 on Jan 8, 2014 9:35:35 GMT -8
(CNN) -- Courting yet more controversy, Dennis Rodman on Wednesday led a singalong of "Happy Birthday" to the leader of North Korea, a man he calls a friend and a "very good guy," but considered by many a brutal dictator who recently lauded the execution of his own uncle.
Images released by The Associated Press also show Rodman appearing to bow to Kim Jong Un at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, the site of a basketball exhibition Wednesday -- Kim's birthday -- between a North Korean team and Rodman's squad of former NBA players and others.
"It was, as you might imagine, a bizarre and unusual occasion that won't easily be forgotten," Simon Cokerell, general manager of Koryo Tours, said in a YouTube video posted after he accompanied tourists to watch the match.
Even before Wednesday's spectacle -- in which his team lost to a North Korean squad 47-39, according to North Korean state media -- Rodman's visit to North Korea had already generated enormous controversy.
www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/world/asia/north-korea-dennis-rodman/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/01/07/newday-cuomo-dennis-rodman-kenneth-bae-cutdown.cnn.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rodman
Images released by The Associated Press also show Rodman appearing to bow to Kim Jong Un at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, the site of a basketball exhibition Wednesday -- Kim's birthday -- between a North Korean team and Rodman's squad of former NBA players and others.
"It was, as you might imagine, a bizarre and unusual occasion that won't easily be forgotten," Simon Cokerell, general manager of Koryo Tours, said in a YouTube video posted after he accompanied tourists to watch the match.
Even before Wednesday's spectacle -- in which his team lost to a North Korean squad 47-39, according to North Korean state media -- Rodman's visit to North Korea had already generated enormous controversy.
www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/world/asia/north-korea-dennis-rodman/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2014/01/07/newday-cuomo-dennis-rodman-kenneth-bae-cutdown.cnn.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rodman
