The US is repeating its willingness to send an envoy to seek the freedom of an American detainee in North Korea after a pro-Pyongyang newspaper reported that such a visit was being planned.

I had no intention of writing about this topic until I saw a former basketball legend singing Happy Birthday to a North Korean dictator.

Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation centre to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, his agent says.

Former US basketball star Dennis Rodman led an auditorium of North Koreans in singing Happy Birthday to their leader yesterday.

Because truth is stranger than fiction.

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.

Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has returned to North Korea to visit his ‘friend’ leader Kim Jong-Un, playing down speculation he would try to help free a jailed American.

A US citizen sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for what North Korea has described as hostile acts against the state started life at a “special prison” today, state media said.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in the North.

An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of “compulsory labour” for unspecified crimes against the state.

North Korea said today it will soon put a detained American on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.

Google’s chairman wants a first-hand look at North Korea’s economy and social media during his private visit to the communist nation, his delegation said, despite misgivings in Washington over the timing of the trip.