Matt Cooper joins basketball legends in North Korea for exhibition game

It’s definitely a novel way to spend a week off. Today FM broadcaster Matt Cooper is in North Korea as part of documentary crew covering a basketball game stuffed with former NBA stars, and coinciding with the birthday of leader Kim Jong-un.

Matt Cooper joins basketball legends in North Korea for exhibition game
Tue, 07 Jan, 2014 - 00:00
Noel Baker

NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman has struck up an unlikely friendship with Kim Jong-un, and yesterday arrived in the capital Pyongyang with a team of retired players ahead of an exhibition match tomorrow.

What caught many Irish people by surprise was the presence of 47-year-old Cooper among the retinue.

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