North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)
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“Before I landed in Pyongyang, I didn’t know Kim Jong-un from Lil’ Kim,” Dennis Rodman tells Sports Illustrated. “I didn’t know what country he ruled or what went on in the country he ruled.” Regardless, Rodman was offered money, so he went. Now he thinks he should “finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize.” Stranger things have happened, we guess.
