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The former basketball star Dennis Rodman left North Korea on Monday and did not answer questions from the media about whether he had met Kim Jong-un during his visit. | |
The pair struck up a friendship when Rodman first travelled to the secretive communist state earlier this year. He returned there on Thursday, a week after North Korea announced the execution of Kim's once-powerful uncle, Jang Song-thaek, sparking speculation by foreign analysts over the future of the Kim regime. | |
On Sunday night he told the Associated Press he had not yet had a meeting with Kim. After leaving North Korea Rodman declined to answer questions from reporters at Beijing airport. | |
Rodman's short visit was aimed at finalising plans to bring 12 former NBA players to Pyongyang for an exhibition game on 8 January to mark Kim's birthday. | |
Rodman is the highest-profile American to meet the North Korean leader since Kim inherited power from his father, Kim Jong-il, in late 2011. | |
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