The US doesn’t exactly have high standards when it comes to dealing with autocrats.  The US practices realpolitik for sure, but North Korea manages to be one of the few nations that fails even the pathetic and minimal standards that the US has.  The Saudi’s might have half of their population in near slavery, but at least they keep their citizens from starving and don’t have to literally wall the poor fuckers in.  North Korea is an abysmal shit hole where everyone is a slave or a criminal of the state.  It is one of the few nations in this world left where the walls are there to keep people from escaping, not to prevent people from entering.

There is no apologizing for North Korea.  The leaders of that nation deserve to be lined up against a wall and shot by any moral system you can imagine.  There might be a handful of places in this world where living conditions are more miserable, but at least they have the excuse that there is no central power or ruling system.  This is not the case with North Korea.  North Korea has a central power and rule system, it is just fucked up, brutal, and incompetent by choice.  North Korea should be an economic power house on its location alone.  Instead, it is the poorest nation in the world and one of the last nations in this world that has to wall its citizens in.  

Dennis Rodman got his 5 minutes in the spotlight again for high fiving the most wretched and brutal leader (or at least figure head) of a sovereign state left in this world.  Good for him.  He is a publicity whore.  He can fuck off back obscurity now.

Grow a goatee and start working on your evil laugh.

I will say on Mr. Rodman’s behalf that he once asked Jay Leno during a guest spot if Mrs. Leno used a strap-on on Mr. Leno.

It was very tempting to go for robululz.

Then people would think that you were Carlos Mencia.

This is in contrast when Google’s Eric Schmidt’s went to North Korea. Schmidt went and advocated for opening the country up and trying to ease the suffering. When he left, he promptly turned around and, against the wishes of North Korea, tossed up a road map the of the place including death camp locations. He didn’t run around complementing little Kim on all the cool shit he stole from his starving people.

The difference is tone. It is one thing to make an overture, and another to come back talking about how much fun the brutal autocrat is to hang out with.

Frankly, I wont lose any sleep over it. Rodman is a publicity whore. You can take what he says with a grain of salt. I would not be shocked if he went to go shoot the shit the with the autocrat just to get a media reaction. He got it. People think he is kind of a dick, but not enough of a dick to do respond in anything more than an eye roll.