Look How Happy Dennis Rodman Made That Evil Dictator

“Basketball diplomacy!”

1. We recently learned that Dennis Rodman and a collection of Harlem Globetrotters had gone to North Korea to play basketball exhibitions for dictator Kim Jong-Un.

2. But until now, we had to use our imaginations to paint a picture of the entertained dictator. No more, thanks to Vice.

Source: Jason Mojica, VICE - Kim Jong-un with Dennis Rodman

Look how tickled he is! He hasn’t been this happy since that time his dad publicly executed those people for reading (reading!) South Korean propaganda leaflets.

Source: Jason Mojica, VICE - Kim Jong-un with Dennis Rodman

But lest you be offended by the idea of Americans going to North Korea to entertain an evil leader while his people starve and are subject to a brutal and inhumane system of gulags and repression, Rodman had some thoughts.

7. So apparently if this guy…

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8. Dressed more like this…

Image by Hulton Archive / Getty Images

It would have been totally fine for Americans to go entertain him during the height of the Soviet Union’s brutal purges.

10. (Also, I for one was shocked that this guy felt the need to utter the words “I’m not a politician.”)

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See more photos and read more about the trip over at Vice.

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