Ping-Pong Diplomacy Not An Option? Try Ding-Dong Diplomacy

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Is Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea the international relations debacle his detractors say it is? Yes, definitely. And maybe not.

Published Jan. 12 2014 5:45AM EST

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Hope against hope, this week I had planned to do what the rest of the world seemingly could not: Ignore Dennis Rodman. I wanted to close my eyes until the former NBA star came back—or, quite conceivably, did not come back—from the black hole that is North

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Ping-Pong Diplomacy Not An Option? Try Ding-Dong Diplomacy

Is Dennis Rodman’s trip to North Korea the international relations debacle his detractors say it is? Yes, definitely. And maybe not.

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Kevin Bleyer