The Buzz: ‘The Worm’ Dennis Rodman meets ‘The Toad’ Kim Jong Un

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It was incredible enough when word got out that Dennis Rodman was in North Korea to conduct “basketball diplomacy.” Now “The Worm” has done something not even Google CEO Eric Schmidt and ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson did on their recent trips to the country — he wormed his way into a meeting with dictator Kim Jong Un.

“You have a friend for life,” Dennis told Jong Un as the two sat in garish, communist-red chairs to watch a game involving three members of the Harlem Globetrotters and 12 Korean players. What a cute inspiration for Randy Newman’s next hit, or heck, even a whole Pixar movie.

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