Dennis Rodman's Letter To Trump Roots For Nobel Prize After Hanoi Summit

Former NBA player Dennis Rodman penned a letter to President Donald Trump, Wednesday, wishing him luck for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Rodman called himself the “Ambassador of Goodwill to North Korea” in his letter while referring to his “continued and strong commitment to assisting” in the president’s talks with Kim. He also doubled down on his unwavering support for the POTUS and his North Korean counterpart – something that the former basketball player has been maintaining since the leaders’ first summit in Singapore, in June.

“My continued friendship with Chairman Kim remains strong – a friendship I encourage you to continue to use for our Nation’s benefit. While I will not be able to attend the Hanoi events, I plan on following up with you, your team and my friend, Chairman Kim,” Rodman wrote in the letter.

“I look forward to talking after this summit ends. We have a lot of work to do, but with your diverse team, amazing global contacts and willingness to think outside the box, we can have peace on the Korean Peninsula. We really can,” he added.

He concluded his letter by reiterating his belief in the president’s ability to bag the Nobel Peace Prize for which Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had nominated Trump, as was reported earlier this month.

"You are on the cusp of a big, beautiful deal," Rodman wrote. "One that would make you the front runner for a Nobel Peace Prize without question. You have my forever and forever support!"

Rodman first made headlines back in 2013 when he visited North Korea twice in the same year, becoming one of the first Americans to meet with Kim. After calling him a “friend for life” Rodman also famously addressed a letter to Kim, urging him to release American prisoner Kenneth Bae who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea. Bae was released the following year.

Rodman’s association with North Korea did not end there. In 2018, despite not being formally invited by Trump or the White House, he arrived in Singapore for the summit and broke down in tears during a CNN interview hours before the historic meeting.

“I said to everybody, the door will open,” Rodman said, emotionally. “It’s amazing, it’s amazing, it’s amazing, when I said those things, when I went back home, I got so many death threats, and I believed in North Korea, and I couldn’t go home, I couldn’t even go home, I had to hide out for 30 days, but I kept my head high, and I knew things were going to change…No more hatred. I don’t see the politics of this whole situation.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s comments about updates on denuclearization talks with Kim, on the second day of the Hanoi Summit on Wednesday, created quite a buzz. "I've been saying very much from the beginning that speed is not that important to me," the president said. "I very much appreciate no testing of nuclear rockets, missiles, any of it. Very much appreciate it."

Perhaps the biggest surprise came when Kim started taking questions from foreign reporters and used a translator to reply. When he was asked by one of the reporters if he was willing to denuclearize, he said, “If I'm not willing to do that I wouldn't be here right now."

Here is the video of another question that he chose to answer: