Dennis Rodman on His Way Back to North Korea

Bridget Johnson | 1:00 PM on December 04, 2013

Dennis Rodman is back on his way to North Korea, which makes the Foot Locker commercial above especially pertinent. He’s reportedly going to train the North Korean basketball team (one can only imagine the penalty for missing a free throw) and play in an exhibition game against other former NBA players in his “basketball diplomacy” efforts.

If only he’d care less about his BFF Kim Jong-un and more about Kenneth Bae, an American held in a deplorable prison camp for more than a year on accusations that he planned a coup against Kim, or 85-year-old Korean War vet Merrill Newman, pulled off a plane nearly six weeks ago in Pyongyang and forced to confess on TV to trumped-up war crimes charges. If only the Foot Locker commercial depicted reality.

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.

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Dennis Rodman on His Way Back to North Korea

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