After their on-air shouting match earlier in January, Dennis Rodman and CNN host Chris Cuomo are making nice.
The former NBA star, in an interview filmed at an rehab clinic where he's receiving treatment for alcohol abuse, even invited Cuomo on a trip to North Korea to meet the country's dictator, Kim Jong-un.
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"I will take you over there and introduce you to [Kim]," Rodman said to Cuomo. "I would love for you to come back here and tell the world, in person to person with him, 'Is he a nice guy?'"
Rodman said he wants Cuomo to put politics aside and sit down for a meal with Kim. Cuomo accepted the invitation with a handshake, but later said he would be surprised if North Korea agrees to the meeting.
The two first clashed in an interview aired on Jan. 7, in which Rodman erupted at Cuomo for asking about North Korea's ongoing detention of American citizen Kenneth Bae. Bae has been serving a 15-year sentence in a North Korean labor camp since Nov. 3, 2012, for committing "hostile acts against the republic."
Rodman later apologized for the outburst and said he had been drinking prior to the interview. After returning from his most recent "basketball diplomacy" trip to North Korea, Rodman entered alcohol-addiction rehab. His agent Darren Prince told CNN that Rodman was struggling to deal with the pressure put on him as a result of his friendship with Kim, who has built a reputation as a harsh and aggressive leader.
Rodman, in the latest CNN interview, quickly apologized after making a somewhat-dismissive reference to North Korea's notorious labor detention camps.
"You don't have to apologize for it; it's not your fault," Cuomo responded. "You just need to understand that when you try to make this man into something he is not, it upsets people."
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