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"Here's something you don't see every day. Former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman hanging out and watching basketball with Kim Jong-un, the leader of isolationist state North Korea.\r\n\r\nTalk about surreal -- check out the rest of the audience kitted out in standard issue uniforms.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nRodman is currently in the country on a visit coordinated by Vice Magazine, which flew him and members of the Harlem Globetrotters over to the Asian country.\r\n\r\nThe duo sat together to watch an\u00A0exhibition basketball match in Pyongyang. Google President Eric Schmidt was unable to meet with Kim during his recent trip, but it is said that the North Korean leader's love of basketball -- which he discovered while at boarding school in Switzerland -- has given Rodman this unprecedented access.\r\n\r\nIt gets weirder though...\r\n\r\nThe Telegraph reports that Rodman and three Globetrotters and the Vice crew headed back for a party at Kim's palace after the game.\r\n\u201CApparently, he had a blast at the game,\u201D Smith said, after speaking by phone with Ryan Duffy, a Vice Media correspondent who was on the trip. \u201CSo he invited them back to his home for a party, and they had a grand old time. Speeches were made \u2014 Dennis made a very nice one \u2014 and they were met with rounds of applause.\u201D\r\nAnd weirder still...\r\n\r\nA tweet from Vic producer\u00A0Jason Mojica that claims Kim got the crew drunk:\r\nUm... so Kim Jong Un just got the #VICEonHBO crew wasted... no really, that happened.\r\n\r\n\u2014 Jason Mojica (@elmodernisto) February 28, 2013\r\nRobin is said to have told Kim -- who used translators to communicate with the former Chicago Bulls player during dinner -- that he has &amp;quot;a friend for life&amp;quot;. That's obviously pretty divisive stuff, given that North Korea is under global pressure for the treatment of its people, nuclear weapons etc.\r\n\r\nFor his part, Rodman has tried to ignore politics, but obviously his visit has stirred plenty of opinion and criticism:\r\nI'm not a politician. Kim Jung Un &amp;amp;amp; North Korean people are basketball fans. I love everyone. Period. End of story. #WORMinNorthKorea\r\n\r\n\u2014 Dennis Rodman (@dennisrodman) February 26, 2013\r\nRelated:Instagram makes its way into North Korea after mobile data services are opened\r\n\r\nAll images via Vice"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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