Posted on 12/28/2013 4:31:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Dennis drawn to North Korea by his Rodman: report
Staff Reporter 2013-12-26 08:55 (GMT+8)
Retired NBA great Dennis Rodman loves visiting North Korea not just to train local basketball players but to enjoy the sexual services laid on for him by his pal, the country's supreme leader Kim Jong-un, reports Hong Kong newspaper Wen Wei Po.
The Hall of Famer departed from North Korea on Monday after training local players for an exhibition game against former NBA veterans scheduled for Jan. 8, Kim's birthday. This was his third visit to the country in the past year.
Known for his wild off-court antics as much as for his rebounding prowess, the 52-year-old Rodman struck up an unlikely friendship with the 30-year-old Kim when he traveled to North Korea for the first time in February. On that occasion he brought a team of Harlem Globetrotters for an exhibition game watched by Kim, who is reported to be an avid basketball fan.
Chris Nelson, Washington's top insider source on Asia, says Rodman's real reason for visiting North Korea extends further than just helping to set up a domestic basketball league. According to the September edition of the private newsletter the Nelson Report: "Sources in the region report that during his visit earlier this year, Kim provided Rodman with what we might characterize as specialized personal entertainment of the female persuasion, and, they argue, that is a special inducement for Rodman this time."
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Madonna Ciccone’s ex-boyfriend is doing important work for the United Nations, world peace, the fight against Climate Change (tm), and secret missions, surely. Basketball diplomacy will sort it all out - just ask the current resident of our White House, winner of a Nobel Prize.
Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, etc., etc.
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He’s well aware ,, his dad lives in Angeles City.
Less extreme versions are also, sadly, not unheard of among South Korean businessmen seeking to “entertain” foreign businessmen. While the North Korean women are likely forced into doing this, which makes it tremendously worse, the presence of South Korean prostitution is not exactly a state secret.
I personally know businessmen and professors who were badly misjudged by their South Korean colleagues, and during separate professional visits to South Korea, received offers of “extra entertainment.” One, a German professor traveling with an American professor, was furious and both left in an angry rage which created an incident. In another case, a businessman let his hosts “save face” by coming up with an excuse that his Korean wife would not permit him to partake, and his hosts quickly got him out of the party with apologies while his other business colleagues happily went ahead with the plans. There is no way he would have committed adultery in any case, but he had spent enough time in Asia to realize the best solution was to appeal to his host's sense of the importance of not disrespecting Korean wives rather than directly attacking his hosts’ choice of “entertainment.”
Imagine the situation when the company officials, who for obvious reasons did not have their female translator present at the party, had to say in less than fluent English, “We not know your wife Hangukseram. We sorry. We not mean to offend Korean wife.” My personal guess is they knew good and well that his wife was Korean, but they understood he was trying to help them “save face,” so all involved went along with the charade.
Perhaps the worst part of all this is that both North and South Koreans have correctly figured out that this type of “entertainment” is a quite effective inducement for way too many Westerners.
That says a lot of bad things about the West.
It is **OUR** problem that Asian governmental and business leaders, not only in Korea but also in China, Japan and several other southeast Asian countries, have quite correctly figured out what far too many Westerners want, and are quite willing and able to provide it.
I wonder if North Korean dogs would eat dark meat.
The allegation — and TigerLikesRooster, please correct me if I've misunderstood — is that the members of the orchestra and singers were overheard in secret recordings saying that Kim Jong-eun’s wife used to do the same things before she got married.
I am quite sure that Kim Jong-eun knew every single possible detail of his wife's past and knew it long before they got married. I am guessing he didn't care, or maybe even viewed her “experience” as a positive.
But for something like that to come out publicly cannot be tolerated for the wife of a major political leader in an Asian country — and not just in North Korea.
Preserving the public “honor” of his wife probably required eliminating anyone who could credibly make an accusation against her.
None of this makes it right. But I do think it shows that Kim Jong-eun is being quite consistent in defending his wife's “honor” while providing a degenerate Western sports star with something Dennis Rodman not only wants but also probably doesn't even mind letting people know he's getting.
If Dennis Rodman were fed to the starving dogs would Obama do something or just watch it from the Situation Room like he did Benghazi?
I see a video in the making here.
I am very sure they had no choice. This is North Korea, after all.
Either you cooperate or you die, and not only that, but your father and brothers get tortured or murdered, and your mother and sisters get raped before they're tortured, murdered, or turned into sex slaves themselves.
But since at least an appearance of consent by the women so they would make the Westerner happy would be very important, perhaps the North Korean women involved were given some sort of extra compensation to cooperate.
I have no evidence to back this up, and I've heard of no evidence in credible sources, but the suggestion being made earlier on this thread that Kim Jong-eun is looking for “breeding stock” for a future North Korean basketball team does, unfortunately, have a sick sort of logic behind it.
If that is true, and if Kim Jong-eun actually stays in power long enough for Rodman’s mixed-race kids to grow up to become basketball players, I'm sure they'll find some way of explaining why mixed race kids are okay in Korea as long as they're tall and play good basketball.
That whole country is seriously messed up.
I thought Revolting cat was referring to Korean women's involvement with “dark meat,” using a non-literal meaning of that phrase, not that he was intending to refer to literal dogs eating Dennis Rodman.
I guess I spend too much time in contexts where certain words have some deviant meanings. Revolting Cat, if I misunderstood your intent, please accept my sincere apology. I did not mean to turn your words, which are neutral in their literal meaning, into some very dirty double meanings.
This reminds me of the time long ago at another newspaper that neither I nor a copy editor caught our sports editor's double entendre in a headline saying that “size does matter,” which he intended to refer to the height of somebody on a high school sports team, and that headline almost got published before the paper's senior editor caught it and exploded. If it had been published, we would have deserved some very serious consequences — the sports editor for deliberately being a jerk with a high school player as his victim, and the rest of us for not catching it.
I think I'd better get off this thread before I say something else stupid tonight.
No harm done. But a good story of how the silly and entirely innocent things we spit out can be misunderstood and twisted and turned against us. It happened to me just the other day with the victim (in his own mind brainwashed by the culture) reacted by sending me a FReepmail full of ad hominem attacks and juvenile insults, all of them so laughable that I was tempted to publish them on the thread that provoked him, but one violation of the forum’s rules (his) was sufficient.
Cheers. May the dogs enjoy the Rodman fool, should it come to that.
Thank you for your patience with my stupid comment.
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