Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, back from a trip to North Korea, said the nation’s reclusive leader wanted President Obama to pick up the phone and call him.
Kim Jong Un "wants Obama to do one thing: call him,” former Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday on “This Week.”
Last week, Rodman went to Pyongyang, North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and a camera crew from the upcoming HBO series, VICE. He hung out with Kim, sitting next to him at a basketball game and attending a party at the dictator’s palace.
Rodman’s visit comes amid heightened tensions between North Korea and the United States.
The nation last month conducted its third nuclear test and has increased its rhetoric against the U.S. and South Korea, threatening Washington with “miserable destruction” if the allies proceed with planned military exercises.
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