Friday, March 1st, 2013 at 4:05 pm  |  151 responses

US Government Slams North Korea for Wining and Dining Dennis Rodman


Dennis Rodman’s completely insane adventure in North Korea has come to an end. And the U.S. government is none too pleased with the antics that took place. It released a statement today, putting the North Korean government on blast for showing The Worm a good time while its own people starve. (So much for “basketball diplomacy”.) Per the AP: “At Pyongyang’s Sunan airport on his way to Beijing, Rodman said it was ‘amazing’ that the North Koreans were ‘so honest.’ He added that Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder, ‘were great leaders.’ … ‘He’s proud, his country likes him — not like him, love him, love him,’ Rodman said of Kim Jong Un. ‘Guess what, I love him. The guy’s really awesome.’ At Beijing’s airport, Rodman pushed past waiting journalists without saying anything. Rodman’s visit to North Korea began Monday and took place amid tension between Washington and Pyongyang. North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test just two weeks ago, making clear the provocative act was a warning to the United States to drop what it considers a ‘hostile’ policy toward the North. The State Department on Friday distanced itself from Rodman’s visit and his praise for Kim, saying he doesn’t represent the United States. ‘The North Korean regime has a horrific human rights record, quite possibly the worst human rights situation in the world,’ spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters in Washington. He accused the regime of depriving their people of food, shelter, water and maintaining prison gulags. Ventrell also took aim at Pyongyang for its grand treatment of the visiting basketball stars. ‘Clearly you’ve got the regime spending money to wine and dine foreign visitors, when they should be feeding their own people,’ he said.”

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  • hillbilly

    Meanwhile, in a somewhat related story, Arec Barrwin is steer worthress!

  • urs

    The atrocities committed by the U.S PRESENTLY are more than enough to tell any American hypocrite to sit his or her brainwashed @ss down and shut up. You think that you are in a position to talk because you are distracted enough by your celebrity and entertainment obssessed culture to see what’s really going on in this world. You don’t know a damn thing about the MASS murders YOUR military commits every day so that you can type your rosy little ignorant comments on the web. You think the U.S dirt is some thing of the past and I don’t ow whether Ishould hate you or pity you. Your government and your tax dollars, if you even have a real job, have paid so-called trrorists to incite violence in otations. You government backs world leaders who rip off and poison their own citizens so that you csn waste energy on yiour gas guzzling SUVs and . The U.S is lee ch nation that feeds on the destruction and others.

  • KevinJohsonFan

    Or you’re just too in love with the country to open your mind and understand that if the U.S. is going to criticize other countries, then they should accept criticism. And if we’re going to talk about a threat of war, we should talk about the actual wars that the U.S. has going on and the push that the country is making in Africa with more drones and the killings of innocent men, women and children all over the world. A country that is killing people every day trying to tell other countries how to conduct themselves is hilarious. A country that depicts other leaders as dictators in order to create a false narrative about them and then proceeds to kill those leaders of countries after they decide not to do things that the U.S. wants them to do has no business criticizing anyone. Period.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    It’s not just the past…it’s also the present. There’s not even a threat from the U.S. No need to threaten anyone when you can just bomb away and drone away.

  • initbruv

    You don’t have to put the word period at the end of your sentence that has a period already. The push in Africa is led by European forces (particularly France) more than American ones and is in response to a specific threat of Muslim extremists in Mali and Algeria. And who are they depicting as a dictator who is not worthy of that title?

  • urs

    *other nations

  • shockexchange

    While working on a deal in S. Korea, the Shock Exchange visited the Demilitarized Zone and looked over into N. Korea via telescope … Looked as if time had stood still on N. Korea since the 50s, while S. Korea had become industrialized. There were rumors of North Korea was struggling so badly, the people had to eat grass soup. It’s real over there Hoss > http://clicky.me/6p4Y .

  • The Philosopher

    Interesting, everything that you have just stated.
    Those points are just… some of the reasons why the United States is the absolute greatest country in the world.
    Yes, the price for its greatness is steep. But its greatness is true, undeniable, and absolute.
    As the masses watch in awe.

  • initbruv

    You can hate or pity me, doesn’t make a difference. You seem like someone who just recently listened to some Immortal Technique and decided that they understand the world now. You are literally so mad and you are typing words in such a frenzy that you are incoherent and belligerent. So you see the world clearly right? Myself and people like me are brainwashed? What are you, 16? I see the here and the now and I know about the past. Yet, unlike you it’s not all so simple for me. My original point in all of this was that Rodman was being a fool to give such lavish praise to Kim Jong Un and that people who want to say that America shouldn’t criticize N.Korea because we have done and do awful things are being foolish. Do I hate much of what the US government does? Yes. But N.Korea stands for every disgusting aspect of the worst form of government. The world is a nasty, violent place. America has a central role in that. But N.Korea is straight up disgusting. Try saying your incoherent nonsense there, see how long it takes for you to end up in a Gulag.

  • z

    The U.S. is just as ripe as any other nation for criticism. It has no koral ground to stand on. End of story. Anyone who argues otherwise is too stuoid to have an opinion.

  • initbruv

    Yes the US is ripe for criticism. So what? Criticize them. Have you read nothing I’ve said? Calm the f*ck down and read before you write. You need to rein yourself in boy.

  • z

    You are an expert on Korean culture and history? Your info is sourced from Korea? Somehow I doubt that. Sitting in an American classroom getting a one sided spin on another nation does mot an expert make you. You are from the same country where multiple states–including one thar actually passed a law– do not want so called “etnic studies” being taught in the classroom out of fear that it will incuite hatred toward whites. Arizonans cannot discuss slavery or the snatching of Mexican lands in depth because they don’t want the colored children getting mad at what their government did. The Japanese internment camps cannot be discussed. Please don’t try to educate the rest of us because you haven’t the proper tools to do so.

  • z

    Moral

  • z

    Your number is way low. That must be the number on the record.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    Are you too ignorant to know that when someone says “Period” it’s not meant to replace a punctuation mark. If it was used that way, I wouldn’t have put the actual period there. It’s to suggest the fact that what was just said can’t really be argued with. I used the word “depicted” and not depicting for a reason. I used the past tense “depicted” because the man is no longer alive thanks in part to the U.S. Gaddafi. The man who dared go against the Western powers and to tried to make and keep Libya in the best place it could be in. He was painted as a dictator. He was blamed for the deaths of people that he most likely had nothing to do with. Outside forces convinced people in Libya that they needed to revolt and initiate an uprising which ultimately led to his murder. This is a basketball site. So I won’t get deep into it. But I suggest you educate yourself and read people who don’t just see America as this faultless beautiful place.

  • Happy

    Well I’m sure I’m older than you and WAAAAAAAAAAY more well traveled than you are and agree 100% with what he said. This is coming from a person born in the U.S, btw.

    Seriously, what makes you think the U.S is any better? It’s so great to have the luxury of experiencing the plight of the rest of the world through a television or the internet. Look at you, for example. The here and the now isn’t as real for you because you are in your comfort zone. The only ugliness you know of on this internet, so how dare you lecture anyone?You don’t know what the U.S government does because it doesn’t affect you. Your government is the embodiment of evil, and no better than any other.

  • Happy

    I hope one of your family members experiences the same type of greatness the U.S bestows upon the rest of the world. The only way for you to appreciate it is for you to see your kid’s school explode from a drone attack. Or to watch your mom shot dead in the street. I mean this wholeheartedly. You think it’s funny and I’d love to laugh outside of the funeral of someone you love that was killed for something like oil or diamonds. Real talk.

  • Happy

    The 800,000 Iraqi civilians your soldiers killed would beg to differ.

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    Incredibly stupid comment from a man who’s clearly not a philosopher. You just implied that America is the greatest country in the world because of how it manipulates situations and people? America is great because it is responsible for killing people and helping other countries kill people? You’re almost as dumb as this other dude who just said that America has a central role in the violence in the world but that somehow, it’s not as bad as North Korea because North Korea is disgusting. Well, how should America’s violent acts past and present be described?

  • Happy

    According to whom? Your government? The U.S has soldiers in most African nations, supplies weapons and intelligence to the governments who are serving their interests, and neglects anyone without land or resources to grab. Even Harvard University got busted being part of the huge African land grab, owning land taken from real Africans. Just stop. You are so naive and young it’s funny.

  • initbruv

    According to every “brainwashed” news like the Economist, NYT, CNN, NBC, ABC, etc etc. But I’m sure you saw a sweet documentary or heard an awesome Immortal Technique song that convinced you otherwise. Anyways it’s a Friday night and I’m going to go raise some h e ll. Enjoy your documentaries.

  • Happy

    All of your comments reek of ignorance. There seems to be a ‘but’ attached to anything “negative” you say, and you are relegating the atrocious behavior of the U.S to something of the past. It’s very present. People tend to get annoyed with hypocrites. Get over it, or deal with everyone coming at you.

  • initbruv

    Read every other comment where I too said that America has done much wrong and continues to do so.

  • i_ball

    To say N Korea shouldn’t be critisized is stupid. Those people really need to be freed but since there is no oil, gold or anything valuable in their land the whole world doesn’t mind. So for once the US calls it right.
    I read for cases of canibalism there a man cooked his own children for Gods sake.

    I don’t agree with any of the American wars in the last twenty as years but to wipe out the North Korean comunism (it’s not even comunism but I don’t know how to call it) would be the best call they can make.

    And Rodman is unbelievable. I don’t know how much he got paid he should have taken it – that’s money covered in blood.

  • Happy

    LOL. Did you really just type that? I mean, you seriously responded to me by naming the U.S media as your sources? That’s actually priceless. Of course the U.S media is objective.

    Little boy, do you even know how war efforts are covered? Military leaders handpick journalists who tend to present their efforts in the greatest of lights. Even press passes at every day domestic news conferences are distributed with great calculation and consideration.

    This is going to be hard for you to understand little guy, but try to read this slowly. Every country’s media is presented FAVORABLY to that nation. It is unashamedly biased, ON PURPOSE. Now you make sure you’re home by midnight. I know you have a curfew.

  • Happy

    They need to be freed from what and by whom? Is their mass slavery going on there? You have some secret inside information? I guess the Western sanctions have nothing to do with it either. You guys should just quit talking about what you don’t know about.

  • initbruv

    Actually the Economist is British. But whatever right? They’re all part of a massive New World Order conspiracy to control the world. The press is in on it, the teachers are in on it, everyone is in on it. Just like people that are brainwashed enough to think that Bin Laden had something to do with 9/11. What fools right? I mean, sh*t have you seen what’s on the masonic seal on the dollar bill? Right? They got blinders on everyone in America. But you are smarter than that. You and the guys who made your favorite documentary know it. Like I said, Happy, I am going to go enjoy my Friday evening. Wish you would have been around 4 hours ago when I started talking about all this so you could tell me all the stuff that I’m being hidden from by the massive coverups of the Leviathan. Keep your head up sir, keep an eye out for black helicopters.

  • Happy

    The West’s blatant disregard for anything not greedy and capitalistic is not limited to the U.S., and lots of terrorists are CIA contractors whether they know it or not. The fact that you think it’s conspiracy is what’s so funny. There really isn’t anything secretive about it, and you’re pretty pathetic for taking everything you read and hear at face value. It’s like a little kid who doesn’t know they have a douche for a parent and gets upset at all the people telling them what their naive little ears don’t ever want to believe.

    I’m actually in a part of the world where U.S helicopters killed quite a large amount of innocent people, but you go ahead and continue to educate me while you do what most intentionally ignorant Westerners do. You continue to think you know anything and continue watching your tv, smart guy. All of us experienced, traveled folks will ignore what we see in person.

  • Happy

    The elites in America get fat off the backs of the masses there too. But Americans have the NFL and the NBA and the Kardashians to make them feel free. That’s the difference.

  • Happy

    Threatening to respond to sabotage and outside attacks is exactly what any nation is obligated to do. The U.S has a lot of balls deciding that the people who they don’t agree with shouldn’t have the same weapons to defend themselves that the U.S or Israel is likely to use on them. They’re saying the same thing to the U.S that I’d say to any man trying to tell me how I should run my household: Go F)ck yourself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/evan.boland Evan Boland

    Are you seriously only able to defend your argument by using the ad hominem fallacy? That’s sad. Open you’re eyes, man.

  • http://www.facebook.com/evan.boland Evan Boland

    I think our main program is called federalized prisons.

  • B15

    So enlighten us. What is North Korea really like?

  • Comment_System

    Nobody said it was you moron

  • Slick Ric

    You’re making too much sense for him KJF

  • KevinJohnsonFan

    You’ve mentioned Immortal Technique more than once…do you have an issue with him because of the truth he speaks? No one else brought him up. So why did you?

  • The Philosopher

    One comes to a conclusion on their reality based on what they have experienced, and what they have been through…
    That being stated, you haven’t any idea of what I’ve been through. Or what my family has been through.

  • The Philosopher

    I did not say that the USA is great based on how it manipulates situations and people. It is great because, it DOES manipulate situations, and people. It does not matter how it is procured.
    I will ask this, sir;
    To what country do people go to, to escape? To escape scud missiles. To escape the Bashar al – Assads of the world.
    Where do peasants go when they tire of feeling like a peasant?
    Where can a peasant become more than a peasant? The United States of America. The only place on Earth to where these dreams are possible.
    There is an idea that is called the American dream. I am sure you have heard of it…
    As a matter of fact, many people have heard of it, and they yearn for it. And they go there to get it at all costs.
    And to answer your last question;
    The blood of the peasant is not solely on America’s hands. It is on the hands of humanity.

  • http://www.facebook.com/evan.boland Evan Boland

    I fail to comprehend. Nobody said it was you, moron? Nobody said what was me?

  • pposse

    and just a few weeks ago i was the one that needed to look in the mirror..i see you now

  • initbruv

    Neither do I. You guys aren’t reading my comments are you? You’re just deciding what you think I wrote and responding to that. What am I doing trying to talk to a bunch of basketball fiends about other sh*t. My bad. How bout them Lakers eh?

  • initbruv

    Right. Nobody is coming at me ad hominem.

  • initbruv

    The Economist isn’t on tv. Nor is the NYT. I don’t even have cable you goof ball. God I can’t do this any more. You Immortal Technique, documentary intellectuals can’t keep up. You just keep inventing arguments that I’m no making. Can you even say nuance?

  • initbruv

    “Military leaders handpick journalists who tend to present their efforts in the greatest of lights” right, while armchairs activists like you and your favorite documentary maker sit in your rooms typing things up, they’re actually out there trying to bring some truth to the world. You’re as bad as those people who think scientists are all in a conspiracy to make us think global warming is real. They are doing the best they can while you and your documentary makers do nothing.

  • initbruv

    I like Immortal Technique. But he isn’t saying anything any history book can’t tell you. In fact he goes too far with all that conspiracy s**t. The only people who “learn” things from him are people who didn’t read enough to begin with.

  • initbruv

    “All of us experienced, traveled folks will ignore what we see in person”. Jesus. Why am I even trying with you?

  • MUBWAR

    loool

  • initbruv

    You’re just a typical person who thinks they have some sort of clarity because they’ve realized that the US government is full of sh*t. Good job, you have figured out something that every 16 year old has. I get it, you think you are smarter and more clear headed than those of us who read and so forth. That’s fine. Your kind is common and typical. But you are generally worthless when it comes down to it. You don’t understand the world and you don’t know your history. Your knowledge is selective and, frankly, weak. I don’t think you are smart because you watched the latest documentary. Stick to basketball, politics is too complicated for you. Let the grown ups try to figure out what to do while you enjoy the benefits of America while castigating it as an evil empire in the meantime.

  • Darksaber

    So, sent those alimony payments with the money you made from this trip yet, Worm?

  • Teddy-the-Bear

    In lieu of this “initbruv” guy’s blatant racist stupidity, here are some ACTUAL FACTS about North Korea. Wow that guy is a f*cking idiot.

    – The literacy rate in North Korea is 100%, on par with Canada and the
    United States and higher than hundreds of nations including South Korea.

    – Education is FREE and COMPULSORY for a minimum of 11 years; by comparison, education is free and mandatory for only 6 years in South Korea, after which parents must pay for their kids to go to school. The number of universities in North and South Korea is also roughly the same.

    – North Korea has more doctors per 1000 people than the United States, Britain, South Korea, Canada, and Japan. Healthcare is FREE and universal there.

    – They rank second in the world with most hospital beds available per 1000 people, behind only Japan (and slightly higher than South Korea, which is third).

    - In 1946 North Korea passed the Law on Sex Equality, which emphasized equal rights for women in all spheres (including the workplace), free marriage and divorce, and equal rights to inherit property and to share property in case of divorce. It ended arranged marriages, polygamy, concubinage, the buying and selling of women, and prostitution. I’ll repeat: 1946. By comparison, it took Canada until 1968 to pass its first Federal Divorce Act, and the UK until 1973 to pass the Matrimonial Causes Act. Before that, their divorce law (which they shared) was heavily sexist in favor of men.

    By the way, I got most of these stats from American sources like CIA World Factbook. Some of you are brainwashed as hell, seriously.

    All of these achievements, despite the fact that literally ALL infrastructure in the North was destroyed in the Korean War by the US, when the entire United Nations (aka the European imperialist countries) invaded them. The US also supported an actual fascist regime in the South, led by Syngman Rhee, who slaughtered between 100,000-300,000 civilians and scattered them in mass graves for so much as having Commun!st sympathies. This event later came to be known as the “summer of terror.” In fact, in South Korea, there were twice as many Korean political prisoners (22,000) than there ever were during the JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF KOREA DURING WWII.

    As for the actual war, around 2 million Koreans died because of it, soldiers and civilians alike, with the North suffering around 3 times the number of deaths as the South. An additional half a million Chinese were killed. All of these atrocities, despite the fact that MOST Koreans opposed the partition of their country into North and South (North Korea actually still wants re-unification–it’s the South, taking orders from America, that doesn’t). Let’s not forget that the the US also came VERY close to dropping the atomic bomb on China and Korea… yet it has the nerve to f*cking whine about North Korea developing nukes! Un-f*cking-real!

    As for this “they can’t even feed their own people!” BULLSH!T, that’s because of sanctions, you f*cking idiot. US/EU/UN sanctions are nothing but an act of warfare that stupid liberals accept because it means not risking the death of your precious white soldiers. US sanctions murdered 500,000 children in Iraq, according to UNICEF… but yeah, it’s totally North Korea’s fault that the US has been sabotaging their entire economy, that they’ve had some of the worst natural disasters in the last 20 years, and that their biggest trading partner, the USSR, collapsed and abandoned them. Makes perfect sense… If you’re a f*cking racist jerk-off.

    Yeah, North Korea is a relatively poor country. But their struggle in dealing with their hardships, and their sense of egalitarianism in doing so, is nothing short of inspirational. Seriously, it’s like most of ya’ll got your facts on Korea solely from “Team America World Police” and George Orwell novels.

    So yeah, the US has NO right whatsoever to criticize North Korea, and they have EVERY right to develop nucle@r weapons. Go f*ck yourself, “initbruv.”

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