Basketball star Dennis Rodman has held tryouts for a North Korean team to face a dozen NBA veterans in an exhibition game on leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday next month – though he has not convinced all the players on the US team that it is safe to go to Pyongyang.

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Ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman has hung out with Kim Jong Un during an improbable journey to North Korea, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later drinking and dining on sushi with him.

Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman met North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey to Pyongyang, telling the leader “You have a friend for life”, a delegation spokesman said.