Talk about an odd choice.
Dennis Rodman is in North Korea as an ambassador for sports diplomacy.
The flamboyant, basketball hall-of-famer arrived on Tuesday in Pyongyang with VICE television and three members of the Harlem Globetrotters for a news program on North Korea that will be aired by HBO later this year.
The free-spirited, hard-partying, heavily tatooed, five-time NBA champion sticks out like a sore thumb in the staid, buttoned-down dictatorship.
But Rodman and VICE said he will run a basketball camp for children and play in a game with North Korea’s top basketball players.
“Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,” VICE founder Shane Smith told the Associated Press.
“But finding common ground on the basketball court is a beautiful thing.”
Reported by Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun
