LOL @Dennis Rodman trying to act like he has the has brains

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

He's not defending the basketball game...he's accusing Kenneth Bae of doing exactly what the North Korean government is incarcerating him for. Bae is a Korean-American from Lynnwood, WA which is about 45 minutes from where I live. The guy has been held on charges of attempting to overthrow the N. Korean gov't for over 14 months.

Why hasn't N. Korea released official charges? Rodman is a moron and watching this video is just embarrassing for so many reasons.

This is almost as bad as Jane Fonda visiting the N. Vietnamese during the war. Rodman is a fukin idiot and it's sad to see he will literally do anything for money now.

[Los Zetas]

Why hasn't N. Korea released official charges? Rodman is a moron and watching this video is just embarrassing for so many reasons.

This is almost as bad as Jane Fonda visiting the N. Vietnamese during the war. Rodman is a fukin idiot and it's sad to see he will literally do anything for money now.

I don't know the situation with Bae but a quick google said he is being trialled.

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea announced Saturday that an American detained for nearly six months is being tried in the Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, a crime that could draw the death penalty if he is convicted.

The case involving Kenneth Bae, who has been in North Korean custody since early November, further complicates already fraught relations between Pyongyang and Washington following weeks of heightened rhetoric and tensions.

The trial mirrors a similar situation in 2009, when the U.S. and North Korea were locked in a standoff over Pyongyang's decision to launch a long-range rocket and conduct an underground nuclear test. At the time, North Korea had custody of two American journalists, whose eventual release after being sentenced to 12 years of hard labor paved the way for diplomacy following months of tensions.

Bae was arrested in early November in Rason, a special economic zone in North Korea's far northeastern region bordering China and Russia, according to official state media. In North Korean dispatches, Bae, a Korean American, is called Pae Jun Ho, the North Korean spelling of his Korean name.

The exact nature of his alleged crimes has not been revealed, but North Korea accuses Bae, described as a tour operator, of seeking to overthrow North Korea's leadership.

"In the process of investigation he admitted that he committed crimes aimed to topple the DPRK with hostility toward it," the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Saturday. "His crimes were proved by evidence. He will soon be taken to the Supreme Court of the DPRK to face judgment."

DPRK is the acronym for North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. No timing for the verdict issued at the austere Supreme Court in Pyongyang was given.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. government is "aware of reports that a U.S. citizen will face trial in North Korea" and that officials from the Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang had visited Bae on Friday. She said she had no other information to share.

Because Washington and Pyongyang do not have diplomatic relations, the Swedish Embassy in North Korea represents the United States in legal proceedings.

Friends and colleagues described Bae as a devout Christian from Washington state but based in the Chinese border city of Dalian who traveled frequently to North Korea to feed the country's orphans.

At least three other Americans detained in recent years also have been devout Christians. While North Korea's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, in practice only sanctioned services are tolerated by the regime.

Under North Korea's criminal code, crimes against the state can draw life imprisonment or the death sentence.

In 2009, American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced to hard labor for trespassing and unspecified hostile acts after being arrested near the border with China and held for four months.

They were freed later that year to former President Bill Clinton, who flew to Pyongyang to negotiate their release in a visit that then-leader Kim Jong Il treated as a diplomatic coup.

Including Ling and Lee, Bae is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. The others eventually were deported or released.

"For North Korea, Bae is a bargaining chip in dealing with the U.S.," said Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean Studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, South Korea. "The North will use him in a way that helps bring the U.S. to talks when the mood slowly turns toward dialogue."

As in 2009, Pyongyang is locked in a standoff with the Obama administration over North Korea's drive to build nuclear weapons.

Washington has led the campaign to punish Pyongyang for launching a long-range rocket in December and carrying out a nuclear test, its third, in February.

North Korea claims the need to build atomic weapons to defend itself against the United States, which has 28,500 troops in South Korea and over the past two months has been holding joint military drills with South Korea that have included nuclear-capable stealth bombers and fighter jets.

Diplomats from China, South Korea, the U.S., Japan and Russia have been conferring in recent weeks to try to bring down the rhetoric and find a way to rein in Pyongyang before a miscalculation in the region sparks real warfare.

South Korean defense officials said earlier in the month that North Korea had moved a medium-range missile designed to strike U.S. territory to its east coast.

The Korean Peninsula remains in a technical state of war because the three-year Korean conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, in 1953.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3171167.html





I don't see anything wrong with him going to N Korea to make money. Would it be wrong for an Iraqi to go to the US go to make money? Or an Afghani?

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I don't know the situation with Bae but a quick google said he is being trialled.


I don't see anything wrong with him going to N Korea to make money. Would it be wrong for an Iraqi to go to the US go to make money? Or an Afghani?

The thing is, we don't know what the truth is and what this man did or didn't do. The fact that Dennis Rodman is talking about this with the leader of N. Korea is one of the strangest things ever....

[Adamjr91]

Why is it when a country such as North Korea holds someone without charge they are accused of human rights abuses by the US?

That is like Ward accusing Pacquiao of draining his opponents.

Another thought, who gives a **** about what Rodman has to say on the situation?

[Los Zetas]

The thing is, we don't know what the truth is and what this man did or didn't do. The fact that Dennis Rodman is talking about this with the leader of N. Korea is one of the strangest things ever....

Do we usually know the truth with most cases and prosecutions? I for one don't and suspect it takes a while to compile evidence in most cases anyway.

Dennis is simply trying to say he's there for a sport and he's getting paid. What issues there are about Bae is not his job to do. He is not a politician.

Even if I was paid 100 million to ask, would you really go to N Korea and ask the man who killed his uncle about Bae? Hell no.

If it's his duty then people must ask Bush and Blair everytime they see them about Iraq and do they feel guilty about a war that started on the basis of WMD's which turned out to be false. Many, many innocents died from that war.

I don't live in the US but do US news groups continue to ask this question?

[Los Zetas]

Why is it when a country such as North Korea holds someone without charge they are accused of human rights abuses by the US?

That is like Ward accusing Pacquiao of draining his opponents.

Another thought, who gives a **** about what Rodman has to say on the situation?

You have a point. There are people detained as suspects of terrorism yet have not been prosecuted.

[Money_May]

What's the has brains?

[RightJab]

Wow, wait, wow, who got has brains? Is it malignant?

[Weltschmerz]

I wonder what all this Rodman-NK stuff is really about.

[Adamjr91]

I wonder what all this Rodman-NK stuff is really about.

Every clique needs a token Black guy, even Kim Jung un's.