DENNIS RODMAN GOES TO A BIRTHDAY PARTY.

This week the very strange Mr Denis Rodman (international basketball star (Rtd), Celebrity Big Brother contestant and, er, international practitioner of basketball diplomacy with the most body piercings) has gone to his new best buddy's birthday party. That buddy is none other than Kim Jong Un, North Korea's Stalinist Dictator and full-time deviant psychopath.

 Hopefully Dennis and his friends will cheer him up. It’s been a rather sad time for Kim of late, also affectionately known as Fatty the 3rd by his many face book friends. Just last month his Uncle, and political patron, most carelessly got himself executed for various nefarious deeds, the exact nature of which is still not very clear but probably related to his feet starting to exceed the size of his shoes (Note to Dennis R: this unfortunate Podiatric ailment is almost always fatal for those who get too friendly with Dictators and you already have very large feet).

 

If that wasn’t bad enough, only a few days ago Mr Fatty’s paternal aunt, Kim Kyong Hui, also died. Rumours are that it was suicide, or possibly a heart condition. She was rumoured to have been an alcoholic. Almost certainly though, as the daughter of Fatty's grandfather and the founder of the North Korean state, Kim Ill-Sun (aka the Eternal President of the Republic ) she was a significant power behind the scenes in North Korea’s otherwise male-dominated politics. She represented that last link between the new young leader and the deified, eternal head of State.

North Korea is a paranoid dictatorship, run by a family obsessed with its blood lineage and survival, where threats of nuclear war are not uncommon, where purges and political execution is now the norm and where the state's starved, brainwashed citizens live in what is one vast gulag. More so than her husband (the unfortunate uncle), Kim Kyong Hui’s death could have far reaching and frenzied political implications. Who will Kim turn on next? How long can it continue?

And so it is, that, into this bloody melee, leaps the idiotic Rodman, replete with his nose studs and ridiculous views. Perhaps he doesn't judge his friends. Perhaps he believes the North Korean propaganda about it being a workers’ paradise. He should be more careful. If I had a best friend who suddenly and viciously turned on and executed his uncle, I might think twice before accepting an invitation to his birthday party. Perhaps Dennis should have sent a card instead.