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NBA commissioner David Stern criticises Dennis Rodman's recent trip to North Korea ...

s latest demand is disingenuous as it insults the South even while Kim Jong-un is calling for improved ties South Korea has rejected a call from the reclusive North to halt "provocative" military drills with the United States, saying that as a democracy it does not launch pre-emptive strikes. North Korea has previously demanded that the South call off the annual drills, labelling them a prelude to...

Statement that manoeuvres with South Korea are a provocation has become an annual fixture in cross-border tension ...

s right, from 1997 to 2001. Perhaps you saw it as a child. No, we used to watch it at uni when we were mashed. Didn't they have weird names? They did: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. And they lived happily ever after in an otherworldly, fantastical and entirely self-contained landscape. Teletubbyland . No, North Korea. I don't remember that episode. It hasn't happened yet, but it might: BBC Worldwide...

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman insists he had humanitarian goals in mind during his latest visit to North Korea ...

over the hills and far away' US basketball star Dennis Rodman has been criticised for his visits to North Korea . But it appears that the next high-profile visitors to the authoritarian state might be sanctioned by the UK government, with the Teletubbies in the front line. The Sunday Times reported that the UK is hoping to soften North Korea's hardline stance by offering TV shows to the the state-run...

s fourth trip to North Korea has attracted plenty of sniggering attention, from reports of Rodman singing happy birthday to Kim (whose date of birth wasn't even previously known) to reports of Rodman apologising for an outburst defending Kim's human rights record by saying that it was the consequence of having too much to drink. But, of course, it's not funny at all. It's pathetic. Two needy men are...

had been drinking' The retired US basketball star Dennis Rodman visited a North Korean ski resort with Kim Jong-un as a statement was issued on Rodman's behalf apologising for comments he made about an American jailed by Pyongyang. Rodman, 52, took a helicopter on Thursday to a new multimillion-pound resort which is one of Kim's showcase projects and which has been condemned as a waste of money in...

Rodman says he was drunk when he appeared to blame Kenneth Bae for his imprisonment in North Korea ...

s reputation, at least at home After days of hype, the result was irrelevant. For the record, a team of North Korean basketball players were leading Dennis Rodman's band of ageing former NBA stars after the first two quarters of an exhibition game in Pyongyang, before the players divided into mixed teams for the second half in the spirit of friendship. There were suspicions the ex-NBA players would...

Dennis Rodman's latest trip to North Korea takes an even stranger turn on Wednesday, as the former NBA star sings happy birthday to Kim Jong-un before an exhibition basketball game in Pyongyang ...

s team of ex-NBA players contrive to lose contest Former basketball player Dennis Rodman has marked his fourth visit to North Korea by dedicating a special game to his "best friend" Kim Jong-un, the country's leader. A team of former NBA stars contrived to lose to their North Korean opposition, after Rodman treated the crowd at the Pyongyang indoor stadium to a rendition of Happy Birthday. Kim is rumoured...

Exclusive preview of a music video, furtively shot in and around Pyongyang, from two Washington DC rappers who went to North Korea and back ...

Former NBA players, led by Dennis Rodman, are set to play basketball on Wednesday for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's birthday. Should they be playing ball? ...

s Chris Cuomo: 'Do you understand what Kenneth Bae did in this country?...

Last november, aspiring rappers Pacman and Peso raised over $10,000 to shoot a music video in North Korea. Now returned, the duo tells  Paul Lewis  about their eye-opening experiences in the closed-off nation Paul Lewis ...

s brought a team of ballers seeking to promote 'basketball diplomacy...

Former NBA stars Dennis Rodman, Charles D. Smith, Doug Christie, and Vin Baker coach basketball to North Korean amateurs ...

s taken a team of ex-NBA stars to play a charity exhibition match to mark Kim Jong-Un's birthday. Accused by critics of helping to legitimise the pariah regime, Rodman and his supporters have hit back, citing "ping-pong diplomacy" between the US and China in the 1970's as an example of how sport can thaw relations between hostile nations. For Rodman's band of sporting emissaries, the North Korean trip,...