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Dennis Rodman’s 2014 trip to North Korea was a disaster — mostly for him

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On that night in 2014, Dennis Rodman was the prized guest at a dinner in his honor in Pyongyang and, at least in that moment, perhaps closer than any American to having the North Korean leader’s ear — and the basketball star was drunk.

Rodman has battled substance abuse since his NBA career ended in 2000, and that state dinner in North Korea’s capital put his drinking problems on full display.

Much has been opined about Rodman’s most recent trip to North Korea, his fifth visit to the country.