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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The one-and-only Dennis Rodman is calling upon a close friend, a man he calls Kim, to release a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for \"hostile acts\" against the state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In response to a May 3 Op-Ed in the Seattle Times by Thanh Tan, which called upon Rodman to leverage his relationship with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to release the 44-year-old Washington man, the Worm tweeted that he is calling upon Un to \"do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hall-of-Fame basketball player has raised eyebrows the past few months after he visited North Korea with a number of Harlem Globetrotters and a film crew to document the trip. He considers Un a close friend and said he would like to go back to the country this summer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https://twitter.com/dennisrodman/status/331826019747127297\nhttps://twitter.com/dennisrodman/status/331833882578145282&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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