My comment:  I think Dennis Rodman is an embarrassment.  North Korea is among the top 10 nations of Human Rights Abuses, and Christian Persecution.  They just executed 8 of their own for having Bibles &/or watching TV, the man just executed his own Uncle!  They just threatened a nuclear attack on South Korea by fax.

Published on Dec 21, 2013

Kim Jong-un‘s comic book villain image belies the very real horrors of North Korea – and foreign celebrities should have nothing to with him, a says survivor of the North Korean gulagDennis Rodman, the former Chicago Bulls basketball star, does not appear to be a man given to self-doubt. But before setting off for his latest trip to Pyongyang, he should perhaps have taken a minute to look into the eyes of the only man to have escaped from a North Korean gulag.Had he done so, it is hard to believe he would not have questioned the wisdom of his relationship with Kim Jong-un, the pudgy-faced North Korean leader who last week ordered his uncle Jang Song Thaek to be executed by machine gun.As Shin Dong-hyuk quietly testifies, the purging and execution of Jang is but the least of the crimes perpetrated by a North Korean regime that keeps more than 120,000 people in the gulags and concentration camps where Mr Shin was himself born 31 years ago.Among those held prisoner is Mr Shin’s father, a man whom he scarcely knows. Nor does he know the nature of the supposed “crime” that led to his father’s incarceration and forced labour – for what will almost certainly be the rest of his life.Mr Shin says he is

via ▶ Defector tells Dennis Rodman North Korea not a party resort – YouTube.

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