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Former basketball star Dennis Rodman made the comments on Friday in Pyongyang, North Korea. The ex-Chicago Bulls basketball player is expected to provide North Korea's national basketball team with four days of training. He also intends to return to Pyongyang in January with a team of fellow former National Basketball Association stars to hold basketball games on Kim Jong Un's birthday, despite political tension surrounding the recent execution of leader Kim Jong Un's uncle.

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SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis Rodman, former NBA player:
"People need to understand one thing, I'm not just coming over here to meet the leader, the marshal. I came over here to meet the basketball team, to prepare a great game for the leader for his birthday. And people need to understand that it's not important for me to meet him every time I come over because he has another greater job to do for his country, and I respect that, but this trip was basically to come over to train the team, so we can have a great, great, game."