Rodman urges for sidelining of politics after N Korea issue
14 Jan 2014 10:40 PM GMT
Retired US basketball star Dennis Rodman appealed on Monday for the world to set aside politics, if only for a day, as he arrived in China from North Korea where he sparked an outcry with comments over an American imprisoned there.
The 52-year-old angered many people in the United States with an interview last week in which he implied that Kenneth Bae, a US missionary imprisoned by North Korea, was to blame for his incarceration rather than authorities there.
Rodman, who calls himself a friend of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, apologized for the comments made during his visit to North Korea with a group of fellow US basketball players.
Rodman was met by a throng of media as he made his way, flanked by burly bodyguards, through the airport terminal to a waiting car.
‘I want to tell people that no matter what’s going on in the world, for one day, just one day, not politics, not all this stuff,’ he said.
 ‘I’m not the president, I’m not an ambassador, I’m Dennis Rodman, just an individual, just showing the world a fact that we can actually get along and be happy for one day.’
The 52-year-old angered many people in the United States with an interview last week in which he implied that Kenneth Bae, a US missionary imprisoned by North Korea, was to blame for his incarceration rather than authorities there.
Rodman, who calls himself a friend of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, apologized for the comments made during his visit to North Korea with a group of fellow US basketball players.
Rodman was met by a throng of media as he made his way, flanked by burly bodyguards, through the airport terminal to a waiting car.
‘I want to tell people that no matter what’s going on in the world, for one day, just one day, not politics, not all this stuff,’ he said.
 ‘I’m not the president, I’m not an ambassador, I’m Dennis Rodman, just an individual, just showing the world a fact that we can actually get along and be happy for one day.’
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