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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and US players in an exhibition basketball game in Pyongyang.
Self-styled diplomat Dennis Rodman has announced his plans to return to North Korea, according to an online report.
"I'm going back August 1," Rodman told Gossip Extra. "We have no plans really, as far as what we're going to do over there, but we'll just hang and have some fun!"
Rodman forged a friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his first trip to the closed-off nation.
Speaking at a fund-raising gala Saturday night in Miami, the former hoops star defended the North Korean war rhetoric, claiming the Soviets' threats were worse.
"The Russians were way out there, and they were acting on their threats," Rodman said. "He [Un] just wants to be loved. He just wants to sit down and talk. That's all."
Meanwhile, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets today to celebrate a major national holiday, the birthday of their first leader, Kim Il Sung.
Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, girls in red and pink jackets skipped along streets festooned with celebratory banners and flags and parents pushed strollers with babies bundled up against the spring chill as residents of the isolated, impoverished nation began observing a three-day holiday.
There was no sense of panic in the North Korean capital, where very few locals have access to international broadcasts and foreign newspaper headlines speculating about an imminent missile launch and detailing the international diplomacy under way to try to rein Pyongyang in. US Secretary of State John Kerry toured the region for four days through Monday to try to tamp down emotions and coordinate Washington's response with Beijing, North Korea's most important ally.
Foreign governments have been struggling to assess how seriously to take North Korea's recent torrent of rhetoric — including warnings of possible nuclear war — as it expresses its anger over continuing US-South Korea military maneuvers just across the border. Officials in South Korea, the United States and Japan say intelligence indicates that North Korean officials, fresh off an underground nuclear test in February, are ready to launch a medium-range missile.
North Korea's own media gave little indication Monday of how high the tensions are.
The Rodong Sinmun, the Workers' Party newspaper, featured photos and coverage of current leader Kim Jong Un's overnight visit to the Kumsusan mausoleum to pay respects to his grandfather. There was only one line at the end of the article vowing to bring down the "robber-like US imperialists."
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