diplomacy. rodman returned from recent tour of north korea while a message with a message for president obama perfect north korean leader. the message, call me. here s what white house spokesman jay carney and dan rather had to say about it. the united states has direct channels of communications with the dprk. instead of spending money on celebrity sporting events to entertain the elites of that country, they should focus on the well-being of its own people who have been staerrved, impri n imprisoned and denied human rights. with dennis rodman, look, i ve been to goat ropings and space shots. i ve been in antarctica and deepest africa. i ve never seen anything quite like this. not even a goat roping site. rodman is taking some heat from the white house and from journalists like rather. he did get a lot closer to kim john un than most diplomats have ever donement they shared court side seats at a basketball game in north korea.