Past Nobel Peace Prize winners include Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa. But according to Dennis Rodman, the next prize belongs to him, and if he isn’t considered for it, “something is seriously wrong.”
“My mission is to break the ice between hostile countries,” Rodman said of his affinity for North Korea in an interview with Sports Illustrated on Tuesday. “Why it’s been left to me to smooth things over, I don’t know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job, it’s the black guy’s [Obama’s] job. But I’ll tell you this: If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.”
Rodman’s visits to North Korea and strange relationship with dictator Kim Jong-un have been baffling the American public for months.
The NBA Hall of Famer took a trip to the communist country to film an HBO documentary with members of the Harlem Globetrotters in February. While visiting, the basketball player and Kim Jong-un found that they had a shared love of the game, and Rodman even planned to vacation with the dictator and his family in August.
Some of Rodman’s “peacemaking efforts” include encouraging President Obama to give Kim Jong-un a call and talk about basketball.
“Fact is, [Kim Jong-un] hasn’t bombed anywhere he’s threatened to yet,” Rodman told Sports Illustrated. “Not South Korea, not Hawaii, not … whatever. People say he’s the worst guy in the world. All I know is Kim told me he doesn’t want to go to war with America. His whole deal is to talk basketball with Obama. Unfortunately, Obama doesn’t want to have anything to do with him. I ask, Mr. President, what’s the harm in a simple phone call? This is a new age, man. Come on, Obama, reach out to Kim and be his friend.”
Rodman also hopes to get a Korean-American missionary released from a prison camp in North Korea where he has been charged with attempting to overthrow the regime and sentenced to 15 years of labor.
“I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him ‘Kim,’ to do me a solid by releasing Kenneth Bae,” Rodman said.
Rodman plans to return to North Korea in August because “Obama can’t do s**t.”
The words of a true leader in world peace.
