Basketball legend Dennis Rodman has revealed more details about his intriguing friendship with Kim Jong-Un, claiming the North Korean leader loves the US and doesn’t want to kill Americans.
Tension has been growing between the US and North Korea over nuclear arms and military aggression over the past few months, but Rodman claims his ‘friend for life’ is just misunderstood.
Rodman says he has visited North Korea six times and has even spent time with Jong Un’s family.
“(Jong-Un) said, ‘I don’t want to kill Americans.’ He loves Americans,” Rodman told DuJour magazine.
“He says, ‘I don’t want to bomb anyone. But we keep our nuclear weapons because we’re such a small country – that’s the only way we can defend ourselves.’
“They just want people in America and the government to know they don’t hate Americans. They want to work with Americans.
“I’ve been around his whole family; I’ve held his baby. No one’s ever held his baby before but me. I got pictures of me holding his infant.
“I gave [his daughter] a little Rodman jersey, we took pictures of it. Me, him and her and his wife. I have a lot of pictures of that in my safe-deposit box.”
Dubbing him the ‘little guy’, Rodman claimed Kim has a fascination with American culture and is ‘just like anybody else’.
“They love American ’80s music. They do karaoke to it. He has this 13-piece girls band with violins. He gets a mic and they play the whole time.
“He loves the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Oldies. When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from Rocky and Dallas.
“When he’s around his people, he’s just like anybody else. He jokes and loves playing basketball, table tennis, pool.”
