Sorry, Dennis Rodman Doesn't Care About Kenneth Bae
Dennis Rodman is very good at basketball and being friends with a repressive dictator. But don't ask him to, like, rescue a fellow American being held captive by his best repressive dictator friend, because that's not his job. That's for "assholes" like Obama and Hillary Clinton, according to the former NBA player.
Rodman somehow made it back alive from his most recent trip to North Korea, where he was somehow not thrown into a gulag by his "friend for life," the reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Rodman flew into Beijing, China on Saturday. Rodman spent five days in Pyongyang during his second trip to North Korea this year. This one came together after the State Department's planned trip to North Korea -- their first in two years -- fell apart at the last minute.
While Rodman's last trip came when North Korea was threatening to nuke literally everyone else in the world, this trip came while American citizen Kenneth Bae, 45, has been imprisoned since November. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in a North Korean prison camp for "hostile acts" in April. Bae was an evangelical missionary and tour operator prior to his arrest. North Korea accused him of distributing material that they believe was going to help fuel a Christian takeover of the country.
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