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'HE'S JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE'

Kim Jong-un hooked on theme tunes to Rocky and Dallas and orders personal ‘girl band’ to play them for hours on end, reveals pal Dennis Rodman

The former NBA All-Star has a special connection to North Korea having visited six times since 2013

POTTY dictator Kim Jong-un is obsessed with the theme tunes to Rocky and Dallas and gets his personal 'girl band' to play them for hours on end, reveals big pal Dennis Rodman. 

The controversial 6ft 7ins basketball legend - a regular visitor to the rogue state of North Korea - claims his unlikely companion is completely misunderstood and bizarrely has a love of many things American.

 Kim with former basketball star Rodman and other former NBA players at Pyongyang Gymnasium in 2014
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Kim with former basketball star Rodman and other former NBA players at Pyongyang Gymnasium in 2014Credit: Getty Images
 The former NBA star says his little pal loves the Rocky theme tune
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The former NBA star says his little pal loves the Rocky theme tuneCredit: Alamy
 Kim watches a basketball game between former US NBA basketball players and North Korean players
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Kim watches a basketball game between former US NBA basketball players and North Korean playersCredit: Getty Images

In an interview with , the former NBA star insists Kim is 'just like anybody else'.

And despite Kim's constant threats to nuke his enemies, Rodman claims the North Korean leader told him: "I don't want to bomb anyone."

Rodman adeded: "He jokes and loves playing basketball, table tennis, pool. They love American '80s music. They do karaoke.

"He has this 13-piece girls' band with violins...He loves The Doors and Jimi Hendrix... When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from Rocky and Dallas."

Talking about Kim's controversial nuclear programme, Rodman said Kim told him he only has them for self defence.

Rodman said: "He's saying the reason why they have the nuclear bombs is because they know that Americans think they can take over.

"He says, "I don't want to bomb anyone. But we keep our nuclear weapons because we're such a small country - that's the only way we can defend ourselves".

"They just want people in America and the government to know they don't hate Americans. They want to work with Americans."

 Kim's all-girl band also have to play the tune form hit 1980s TV show Dallas
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Kim's all-girl band also have to play the tune form hit 1980s TV show DallasCredit: Wenn

Rodman became unlikely pals with Kim as the communist leader is said to be obsessed with the Chicago Bulls basketball team.

Rodman has visited the country six times since 2013 and appears to be very close with Kim, who holds the title of Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

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