BEIJING -- Former basketball star Dennis Rodman apologized on Monday for not being able to help an American missionary detained in North Korea while he
played there to celebrate the birthday of his friend and leader Kim Jong Un.
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Rodman told media on his arrival at Beijing airport from a weeklong trip. "Its
not my fault. Im sorry. I just want to do some good stuff, thats all I want to
do." He said he would return to North Korea next month, but gave no details.
Rodman and the squad of retired NBA players he took to North Korea for an
exhibition game marking Kims birthday have met with criticism in the U.S.
because of North Koreas human rights record and its development of nuclear
weapons. Acknowledging the controversy surrounding the trip, one of the players,
Charles D. Smith, said Rodman "opened the door and he did some missteps along
the way." In an interview in Beijing, Smith said Rodmans singing of "Happy
Birthday" to Kim before the exhibition game at a Pyongyang stadium was something
that he alone had decided to do. "I think that it might not have been the right
thing to do, but he did it ... if it was done in private it would be different,
but when its done in the open like that, people are going to have opinions."
During the trip, Rodman was also slammed for not using his influence with Kim to
help free Kenneth Bae, the missionary in poor health who has been detained for
more than a year for "anti-state crimes." Rodman apologized last week for
comments he made in a CNN interview implying Bae was at fault, saying he had
been drinking and was upset because some of his teammates were under pressure to
leave. Smith said the controversy surrounding Bae was a "bad situation" that
"overshadowed some of the things that we were doing." "Dennis is not a member of
the State Department, he is not a member of the UN," Smith said. "For them to
put the flag in his hands and say go and negotiate and talk about it, he
probably would have made it worse, you know." He said North Korean officials had
invited the team back "at any given time." On Monday, Rodman reiterated that his
trip was one of goodwill. "This is not a bad deal," he said. "I want to show
people that no matter whats going on in the world, for one day, just one day, no
politics, not all that stuff. "Im sorry for all the people and whats going on,
Im sorry," he continued. "Im not the president, Im not an ambassador, Im just an
individual that wants to show the world the fact that we can actually get along
and be happy for one day." Rodman and Kim struck up a friendship when the
basketball-player-turned-celebrity first travelled to the secretive state last
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competition at the Port Elizabeth Sevens after losing its three pool fixtures of
the South African rugby tournament on Saturday. The Canadian mens team fell to
South Africa 24-7, Kenya 24-12, and Spain 26-12 at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
"To make those mistakes was disappointing and now we must pick ourselves up and
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