TOKYO – Former Chicago Bulls basketball star Dennis Rodman flew into North Korea Tuesday morning and hopes to meet Kim Jong Un, according to associates, at a time when President Donald Trump is said to be trying to set up a secret channel to North Korea. It is not clear if the Rodman trip is part of that effort or not. RelatedDaniel Pinkston, a North Korea analyst who advised Rodman after an earlier trip, said that the basketballer had a “long-standing invitation” to return to North Korea. But efforts to convince North Korea to release the men currently held have not been successful so far. On one of his trips to North Korea, in January 2014, Rodman took a group of retired NBA stars to Pyongyang for what one of them called “basketball diplomacy” with North Korean players.

Source: National Post June 13, 2017 02:37 UTC