And so what is Dennis Rodman doing, lending his dubious patronage to this regime, and parading his relationship with the butcher at its top? (Rodman has called Kim a “friend for life.”) Sometimes, the asinine attempts of C-listers to pace one more time on the world stage wanders into real evil. It surely does here.

The questions to be asked of Rodman: Where is the country to which he would not go? If a modern Hitler were to ask him to help his Brownshirt intramural squad with their rebounding, would he be game for that?

Rodman should be ostracized. He is a pander for the worst and cruelest nation in the world, the very last truly communist slaughterhouse.

We are all occasionally exasperated by the self-absorption and egotism of the famous and half-famous. But somewhere along the line, their antics cease even to resemble a joke. Mr. Rodman is the purest example of this. He is utterly contemptible.