Kim Jong-Un an ‘awesome kid’, says Rodman

Former basketball star Dennis Rodman continued to laud North Korea’s ruler as an “awesome kid” and his father and grandfather as “great leaders” at the end of his basketball diplomacy mission to Pyongyang.

At a time of US-North Korea tensions following Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test, the man who once dated Madonna became the most high-profile American to meet Kim Jong-Un, with whom he watched a basketball match.

Kim “is like his grandfather and his father, who are great leaders. He is an awesome kid, very honest and loves his wife so much,” China’s state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Rodman as saying before he left for Beijing yesterday.