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Dennis Rodman names a team for North Korea exhibition

Dennis Rodman named a team of former NBA players to eventually travel to North Korea.

Dennis Rodman named a team of former NBA players to eventually travel to North Korea.

Rodman has been criticized for not talking about North Korea's human rights record, described as one of the world's worst by activists, the U.S. State Department and North Korean defectors. The defectors have repeatedly testified about the government's alleged use of indiscriminate killings, rapes, beatings and prison camps holding as many as 120,000 people deemed opponents of authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un, the third generation of his family to rule.