Dennis Rodman, companions have awesome time with leader of starving totalitarian gulag-state
posted at 6:41 pm on February 28, 2013 by Allahpundit
For once, the term “useful idiot” seems unequal to the task. Nothing I can say here can outdo the AP’s account of the trip, so hug your children, take a deep breath, and step forward into the void. Quote:
“The crowd was really engaged, laughed at all of the Globetrotters antics, and actually got super loud towards the end as the score got close,” said [VICE Media correspondent Ryan] Duffy, who suited up for the game in a blue uniform emblazoned with “United States of America. “Most fun I’ve had in a while.”…
“They bonded during the game,” [VICE founder Shane] Smith said [of Kim and Rodman] by telephone from New York after speaking to the crew. “They were both enjoying the crazy shots, and the Harlem Globetrotters were putting on quite a show.”…
After the game, Rodman addressed Kim in a speech before a crowd of tens of thousands of North Koreans, telling him, “You have a friend for life,” Detrick said…
“Dinner was an epic feast. Felt like about 10 courses in total,” Duffy said in an email to AP. “I’d say the winners were the smoked turkey and sushi, though we had the Pyongyang cold noodles earlier in the trip and that’s been the runaway favorite so far.”
VICE posted photos of Kim and Rodman yukking it up at the game but, alas, no photos of the “epic feast.” If you’re curious about how epic North Korean dining habits can get, go see what Gawker has up. Mind you, we’re two weeks out from a North Korean nuclear test that was designed explicitly to threaten America; according to one former U.S. military commander in South Korea, the North might have an ICBM capable of delivering a nuclear payload to the continental U.S. as soon as five years from now.
Meanwhile, the country’s gulag network is getting bigger. Exit quotation from a VICE producer: “Um … so Kim Jong Un just got the (hash)VICEonHBO crew wasted … no really, that happened.”
Update: CNN’s verdict? A “diplomatic triumph.”
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North Korea needs to understand that we are feeling a little crabby today. Perhaps twenty or thirty precisely placed Tomahawks would best illustrate that point.
M240H on April 16, 2013 at 10:45 AM
What was it Mom used to say about bullies? Oh yeah, they can dish it out but they can’t take it.
Is it time for Kerry to promise one-on-one unconditional talks if they’ll stop saying mean things?
Drained Brain on April 16, 2013 at 10:45 AM
So it turns out that Baby Kim’s nuts aren’t that big after all.
Ward Cleaver on April 16, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Not really. The Norks can just lie to their own people and even make a video of Seoul in flames. The people are obligated to believe it. Or else.
The Rogue Tomato on April 16, 2013 at 10:48 AM
Lil Kim (aka the Chosen one) is lucky the ROK’s have shown so much restraint thus far.
The only thing holding them back is they understand the costs they will have to incur to unify the peninsula…a couple trillion over a decade or so. Repair the damage in the South, rebuild the North, and have to find a way to feed the remainders of what was once a population of 24 million…albeit sharply reduced.
coldwarrior on April 16, 2013 at 10:49 AM
0bama obliges in 3…. 2…. 1….
UltimateBob on April 16, 2013 at 10:50 AM
Eh, the Phat Chunk needs anything he can get his sausagy fingers around to make himself look like a world leader, so of course they will make a big deal out of a few effigys being burned.
Rivers of blood, fields of bones, yankee pig dogs all die! Yeah yeah, settle down, Blimpie.
Bishop on April 16, 2013 at 10:50 AM
I’ve got your apology right here.
50sGuy on April 16, 2013 at 10:53 AM
North Korea doesn’t have a free press. State media can produce propaganda showing a successful test and there’s no way to contradict that claim. Indoctrination is a powerful tool.
blammm on April 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
I’d like to apologize to him. Personally. In spades.
HiJack on April 16, 2013 at 11:02 AM
Best just to ignore NoKo.
rbj on April 16, 2013 at 11:06 AM
It’s time for someone to turn the tables on NK and start threatening them. Unlike Iraq circa 2002, I think North Korea knows how precarious its position is and would quickly comply.
blink on April 16, 2013 at 11:08 AM
“We’re sorry we were only able to get 250 people to participate.”
The Rogue Tomato on April 16, 2013 at 11:10 AM
Hey! No need to be greedy…I’m sure we can share a few more than that.
Not to mention, don’t we still have a few Iowa-Class Battleships sitting at berth with nothing to do?
Let’s remind the runt about how gun-crazy Americans really are…and the Navy can get in some extra range time to boot!
Win-Win!
BlaxPac on April 16, 2013 at 11:11 AM
This tactic works even easier with Obama voters.
Alabama Infidel on April 16, 2013 at 11:12 AM
I would pay to watch that!
OldEnglish on April 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM
I expect John F’n Kerry will have to make further concessions to Red China to get North Korea to back down from their threats. Funny how that works.
slickwillie2001 on April 16, 2013 at 11:15 AM
.
I can’t get the notion out of my mind, that this is all an “orchestrated” distraction between Barack, and Kim.
listens2glenn on April 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Oh, those NorKs. They be crazy!
madmonkphotog on April 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Already paid for by your tax dollars for Defense.
Thank You US Navy!
BlaxPac on April 16, 2013 at 11:19 AM
Apparently people have the right to free speech in South Korea, and they aren’t crazy about Krazy Kim III. If the North Korean population had the right to free speech, their adulation of Krazy Kim might be rather muted.
So Krazy Kim is now telling free people in a foreign country, “Ruv me or I’ll kill you!”
I remember effigies of George W. Bush being burned in Tehran several years ago. What if GWB had had the same reaction as Krazy Kim?
Steve Z on April 16, 2013 at 11:23 AM
I think that is a distinct possibility. And little chubs knows that a failure is likely. Heck, they’ve only had one that really worked. Having another one get 3/4ths of a mile downrange before it craps out would be, well, embarrassing.
iurockhead on April 16, 2013 at 11:26 AM
No… nK has to serve, THEN we volley…
Khun Joe on April 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM
Odd how the US media/populace is starting to conform to that mold, isn’t it?
Midas on April 16, 2013 at 11:41 AM
Starting? Have you watched MSNBC & CNN (with a barf bag I hope)in the last 20 years?
Or listen to NPR in the last 100?
:snort:
BlaxPac on April 16, 2013 at 11:49 AM
screw that lil midget and the horse he rode in on!
Katfish on April 16, 2013 at 11:58 AM
Honestly, probably less than a single cumulative hour with any of those. :)
Midas on April 16, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Can’t the Norks just make bigger and more effigies, burn them wiht fanfare, and we’d be done with the episode?
Sir Napsalot on April 16, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Will li’l Kim become unexpectedly ill after not delivering on his fiery rhetoric? …or does the DPRK military leadership believe in him as the supreme authority?
freedomfirst on April 16, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Send Michelle over to slap this child upside the head and end this tantrum before the belt comes out.
meci on April 16, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Oh yeah, keep pressing their buttons. DPRK needs to jump the shark such that they can get a royal beat down.
jake49 on April 16, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Hey, Yung ‘un. Saddam Hussein has your apology for you.
We’ll arrange a meeting.
Dexter_Alarius on April 16, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Screw North Korea . . . it’s time to take that little puke to the woodshed.
rplat on April 16, 2013 at 1:14 PM
I’m figuring the wee Kim is still trying it find his wang under his dog filled gunt.
RovesChins on April 16, 2013 at 1:37 PM
And here unseen had me nearly convinced WWIII was already starting.
Maybe tomorrow.
DarkCurrent on April 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM
Come on Kerry! Paddle your little Swift Boat over there, shoot yourself a few times, claim you defeated them and run for prez.
trl on April 17, 2013 at 12:46 PM