Bad boy former NBA star Dennis Rodman has launched a profanity-laden rant against Barack Obama over the president’s failure to get on with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
“We got a black president (who) can’t even go talk to (Jong Un) … Obama can’t do s—, I don’t know why he won’t go talk to him,” Rodman told TMZ.
“Obama? F— him!”
Rodman told the gossip website he would return to North Korea on August 1 in an attempt to sway Jong Un in releasing US citizen Kenneth Bae.
Bae is a tour operator who was arrested in the troubled dictatorship in November. North Korea’s Supreme Court sentenced him last week for unspecified “hostile acts” against the state. In a Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday, North Korea said the 44-year-old Washington state man entered the country with a disguised identity.
“I’m going to try and get the guy out,” Rodman said of Bae. “It’s going to be difficult.”
Earlier this week, Rodman took to Twitter to say he would ask Jong Un to “do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose”.
The former San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls star sparked controversy in February when he visited North Korea, and sat next to Kim as they watched an exhibition basketball game.
His trip came at a time of high tension between Pyongyang and Washington and was not endorsed by the U.S. State Department.
With Associated Press