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"  There was a basketball game in North Korea that two Chinese reporters were not allowed to see. But, according to the game report from the reporters who couldn&amp;#039;t see the game, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-Un sat next to each other at half-court, Rodman in sunglasses, laughing and chatting and diplomatting with the supreme leader. According to a Google translation of the news story, there were cheerleaders in miniskirts, as teams split up twelve active or retired members of the &amp;quot;North Korean Sports University&amp;quot; and four players from the Harlem Globetrotters (which translates into &amp;quot;Harlem fancy basketball players,&amp;quot; for what it&amp;#039;s worth). Afterward, the internationals exchanged gifts. The North Koreans gave the Globetrotters a &amp;quot;banner.&amp;quot; The Globetrotters presented the North Koreans with a &amp;quot;red and white ball gown&amp;quot; \u2014 probably a jersey or some warmups, but also possibly a ball gown. The final score was 110 to 110. According to the report. Un then took the HBO and Vice guys out for some drinks. As producer Jason Mojica tweeted, &amp;quot;Um... so Kim Jong Un just got the #VICEonHBOcrew wasted... no really, that happened.&amp;quot; One can only dream that the Worm or Vice got to shoot the day. And even with the almost definite distortion of the game, the whole trip is oddly comforting. Yes, it&amp;#039;s only a month after the nation&amp;#039;s National Defense Council reiterated that it plans to target the United States with nukes. Some things never change. But Kim Jong-Un does appear to be at least a small dose less crazy than his director-kidnapping, Godzilla-knockoff-auteur father. He seems content to chill in the grandstands, watching basketball with one of his idols growing up, no matter how forsaken the guy may be, and then go and get some drinks. And hell, maybe the two did bond \u2014 possibly over their fathers&amp;#039; insanity. (Mojica tweeted that Rodman, the Globetrotters, and the crew visited Il&amp;#039;s body that morning.) Rodman reportedly told Un, &amp;quot;You have a friend for life.&amp;quot; Could be worse. That all said \u2014 and we can&amp;#039;t believe we&amp;#039;re saying this \u2014 we&amp;#039;ll feel less nervous once Rodman gets back to American soil. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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