Secretary of State John Kerry is the most prominent American diplomat in the world and he took time on Tuesday to speak about an unsanctioned trip to North Korea by Dennis Rodman, saying that the basketball star should stick to sports and not world politics.
According to the Associated Press, Kerry spoke about Rodman's trip to North Korea on NBC and mentioned that the basketball star should probably stick to his first profession.
"Dennis Rodman was a great basketball player," he told NBC's Andrea Mitchell. "And as a diplomat, he is a great basketball player. And that's where we'll leave it."
The NBA star has always been a beacon of attention, but that was magnified last week during his visit to North Korea with some Harlem Globetrotters and filmmakers from VICE doing a show for HBO. The dictator has overseen prison camps, starvation of children and has one of the worst human rights records in the world.
Rodman said over the weekend that the leader wanted President Obama to "call him."
The White House denounced Rodman's trip Monday. "Instead of spending money on celebrity sporting events to entertain the elites of that country, the North Korean regime should focus on the well-being of its own people, who have been starved, imprisoned and denied their human rights," said Press Secretary Jay Carney.
He appeared on ABC over the weekend and spoke about the trip, after which George Stephanopoulos told him about some of the past human right violations the leader has done in the past and that maybe he should bring that up next time he goes.
