Dennis Rodman returning to North Korea ‘to just hang and have some fun’

[mota bhai 2,675]

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is planning to bring his brand of basketball diplomacy to North Korea again.

Mr. Rodman says he is returning to visit North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un on Aug. 1, the Miami Herald reported.

“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,” he said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/dennis-rodman-returning-to-north-korea-to-just-hang-and-have-some-fun/article11211495/

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Sorry but any citizen who goes and gets photo ops with people that are threating to nuke. Us. Should be charged with treason. As Jane Fonda should have

[mota bhai 2,675]

Sorry but any citizen who goes and gets photo ops with people that are threating to nuke. Us. Should be charged with treason.

Unfortunately for you, words have meaning. The word treason has a very specific meaning. It doesn't apply to what Rodman is doing.

[GandD 5,966]

Sorry but any citizen who goes and gets photo ops with people that are threating to nuke. Us. Should be charged with treason. As Jane Fonda should have

I kinda feel like this when I read this

Unfortunately for you, words have meaning. The word treason has a very specific meaning. It doesn't apply to what Rodman is doing.

But I guess he's right.....

Frickin' Rodman. Please stay there.

[mota bhai 2,675]

But Kim is his fwend.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Unfortunately for you, words have meaning. The word treason has a very specific meaning. It doesn't apply to what Rodman is doing.

Ok charge him with something.. I am not a lawyer.. You figure out the charge

[Iraqvet 68]

Rodman might end up in a labor camp if he beats Kim Jong-Un at a game of one on one.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Unfortunately for you, words have meaning. The word treason has a very specific meaning. It doesn't apply to what Rodman is doing.

Oh really?

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort* within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

*To render assistance or counsel. Any act that deliberately strengthens or tends to strengthen enemies of the United States, or that weakens or tends to weaken the power of the United States to resist and attack such enemies is characterized as aid and comfort.

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Edited April 16, 2013 by The Patriot

[GandD 5,966]

Oh really?

Wouldn't this be hard to prove based what he plans to do?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Jay-Z and Rodman can share the same cell. Bathe Beyonce, and send her to my quarters for punishment.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Bathe Beyonce, and send her to my quarters for punishment.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Wouldn't this be hard to prove based what he plans to do?

Not unless he is acting in an official (authorized) diplomatic capacity for the US. The belligerents involved in the Korean Conflict are still technically in a state of war. An armistice between battlefield commanders was agreed to, however, the various nations involved never agreed to or signed any agreement to end the conflict.

On July 27, 1953, representatives from the U.N. Command and from the

combined Korean People’s Army and Chinese People’s Volunteers signed the

Armistice Agreement to cease hostilities on the peninsula. The Agreement’s

preamble states the cease-fire agreement will “insure a complete cessation of

hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement

is achieved.” It also states that “the conditions and terms of armistice . . . are

intended to be purely military in character and to pertain solely to the belligerents

in Korea.” Paragraph 62 states that the Armistice “shall remain in effect until

expressly superseded either by mutually acceptable amendments and additions or

by provision in an appropriate agreement for a peaceful settlement at a political

level between both sides.” On August 29, 1953, the General Assembly passed a

resolution “[noting] with approval the Armistice Agreement.”

In February 1954, the parties attempted to start negotiations for a peace

agreement at the Geneva Conference, but talks foundered. North Korea, South

Korea, China and the United States made another attempt to reach a peace

settlement during the Four-Party Talks in Geneva from 1997 to 1998, but failed to

come to an agreement because of the DPRK’s request that U.S. troops withdraw

from the peninsula. Further peace talks are not expected in the near future, due to

the lack of progress in denuclearizing North Korea since the Six-Party Talks came

to a halt in 2007.

While North Korea has called for peace negotiations, official statements

by the ROK and United States have stated that signing a peace agreement is

conditional on North Korea dismantling its nuclear weapons program. In 2009,

Stephen W. Bosworth, President Obama’s special representative on North Korea,

mentioned that the U.S. government envisions Northeast Asia with a

He asserted that the United States would discuss a peace treaty and other incentives

only when the process of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula had gained

“significant traction.” Recent ROK administrations have taken similar positions

that North Korea must show genuine willingness to abandon its nuclear weapons

program before peace negotiations can resume.

http://www.pennealr.com/archive/issues/vol8/EALR8(1)_Nam.pdf

[mota bhai 2,675]

Oh really?

Really. Your reply proves my point quite well.

[GandD 5,966]

Not unless he is acting in an official (authorized) diplomatic capacity for the US. The belligerents involved in the Korean Conflict are still technically in a state of war. An armistice between battlefield commanders was agreed to, however, the various nations involved never agreed to or signed any agreement to end the conflict.

Yeah, I know about the armistice and to further your point, I thought NK cancelled the armistice last month. So yes, we both agree that the two are in a state of war. Based on what you posted earlier regarding grounds for treason, I didn't see anything a lawyer could use definitively to say that Rodman's hanging out with Kim was jeopardizing national security, secrets, or giving financial or technological aid. Is the thought that by being there he is giving legitimacy or aid to the enemy? I know my feelings on someone that hangs out with the enemy but would our legal system have a direct course of action assuming Rodman didn't somehow endanger national security.

[mota bhai 2,675]

Yeah, I know about the armistice and to further your point, I thought NK cancelled the armistice last month. So yes, we both agree that the two are in a state of war. Based on what you posted earlier regarding grounds for treason, I didn't see anything a lawyer could use definitively to say that Rodman's hanging out with Kim was jeopardizing national security, secrets, or giving financial or technological aid. Is the thought that by being there he is giving legitimacy or aid to the enemy? I know my feelings on someone that hangs out with the enemy but would our legal system have a direct course of action assuming Rodman didn't somehow endanger national security.

Rodman is not committing treason by going there. To say otherwise is just silly.