Basketball player Dennis volunteers to stop worldwar3

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Dennis Rodman has given an emotional and apologetic interview two months after his trips to North Korea in which he vowed not to return to the brutal, repressive country.

'I don't want people to look at me as the devil or evil person,' Rodman told ESPN. 'If I put anyone in harm's way, I apologize, you know.'

Though he's sorry at how things turned out, the former NBA star said he was just giving peace a shot.

'At least someone tried,' he said.

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Dennis Rodman, two months after traveling to North Korea for the second time to visit leader Kim Jong Un and conduct an exhibition basketball game, insisted in an interview with ESPN that his motives were pure and that he would not go back if that is what people wanted. Rodman, speaking in a recent interview on camera with ESPN's Mark Schwarz, said he was only tying to "do great things in life. Dennis Rodman AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan Dennis Rodman has made two recent trips to North Korea, where he has visited with leader Kim Jong Un and conducted an exhibition basketball game.

"I wish they understood the whole purpose of why I went to North Korea," Rodman said. "I wish they did." Sporting a black canvas-like fedora with black feathers in the back and a pair of large-lense, white-framed sunglasses with a nose ring in each nostril, another ring looped around his lower lip and at least one ring in his left ear, Rodman, also wrapped in several bright neck scarves and what not.

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Out of line? Rodman and Kim Jong Un clap during a basketball game Rodman helped arrange in North Korea. Rodman was widely criticized for singing Happy Birthday to the cruel despot at the game

You know, I don't want to be a hero,' he said. 'I just wanted to be, just do happy things and do great things in life.'

But critics of Rodman, world diplomatic leaders among them, said he wasted his rare proximity to the ruthless leader King Jong Un, to whom he even sang Happy Birthday at a basketball game he arranged.

And the athlete's most recent visit to Pyongyang became controversial after an agitated, drunken Rodman gave an interview to CNN from North Korea in which he suggested that Kenneth Bae, a seriously ill American missionary imprisoned in North Korea, was responsible for his own imprisonment. !

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At least someone tried': Rodman made two trips to the DPRK amid widespread criticism. He now says he's sorry but remains adamant his intention was to reach out a diplomatic hand to the Hermit Kingdom
I wish they understood the whole purpose of why I went to North Korea,' he said. 'I wish they did.'

Rodman addressed his critics and the public condemnation with a vow not to return to North Korea.

'If you don't want me to go back there ever again, I won't go back,' he said.

Things took turn last week when all of a sudden Dennis Rodman announced his trip to North Korea. Now what everybody is saying is that he was requested by white house's to act as a mediator in between U.S.A and North Korea.

Rodman, 56, said last week before departing for Pyongyang that he was trying to bring sports to the increasingly isolated nuclear-armed country, where he has previously met leader Kim Jong Un. Haha, we don't believe this statement..... period.

“Everybody’s going to be happy. It was a good day. It was a good trip. A really good trip,” Rodman said.

Wearing black clothing with the PotCoin logo – a crypto-currency used by the legal marijuana industry – Rodman fended off questions from dozens of journalists at the arrival gate.

Asked repeatedly if he had met Kim, Rodman said: “You’ll find out.”

He also declined to answer questions about whether he had played a role in the release of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was returned home on the day of Rodman’s arrival suffering from brain damage and in a state of unresponsive wakefulness, after more than a year in detention in North Korea.

Tensions have escalated on the Korean peninsula over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests and its presenting.

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Rodman’s North Korea visits over the years have fueled speculation that he could somehow facilitate a diplomatic breakthrough between Pyongyang and Washington.
The U.S. State Department has said Rodman was traveling as a private citizen.

Rodman has faced ridicule and criticism for his trips to North Korea, which some U.S. politicians and activists view as serving only as fodder for North Korean propaganda.

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