Former NBA star Dennis Rodman told Sports Illustrated he should be considered for a Nobel Peace prize for all the work he’s doing in easing tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
Even as the Obama administration and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continue to battle in ongoing disarmament talks, Rodman has pronounced the outspoken and controversial leader “a friend for life.”
Earlier this year, he also traveled to the Vatican City, where he willingly offered his thoughts on who the new pope should be.
“My mission is to break the ice between hostile countries,” Rodman told SI., in an interview for its annual “Where are they now?” issue. “Why it’s been left to me to smooth things over, I don’t know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it’s the black guy’s [President Obama] job. But I’ll tell you this: If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.”
As one of the game’s greatest rebounders of all time, Rodman made a career of being in the right place at the right time. “I want to be anywhere in the world that I’m needed,” he told SI, adding that he plans to return to North Korea next month.
“I’m just gonna chill, play some basketball and maybe go on vacation with Kim and his family,” he said. “I’ve called on the Supreme Leader to do me a solid by releasing Kenneth Bae.”
Bae, a Korean-American missionary, has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for what North Korea claims are crimes against the state.
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