Rodman Minta Maaf dan Akui Mabuk Komentari Kenneth Bae
Rodman Apologizes for Comments about Kenneth Bae
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Seoul (B2B) - Mantan bintang bola basket Amerika Serikat Dennis Rodman meminta maaf atas komentar yang dibuatnya mengenai seorang misionaris AS bernama Kenneth Bae yang dipenjarakan di Korea Utara.
Melansir CNN, Kamis, melaporkan bahwa Rodman mengaku tengah mabuk saat menyampaikan komentar tersebut seperti dikutip Yahoo News.
Lawatan empat hari Rodman ke Korea Utara dihujani kritik dari para aktivis hak asasi manusia dan keluarga misionaris.
Dalam satu wawancara, Rodman AS yang dipenjarakan itu, Rodman menyebut Bae, bukan pemerintah Korea Utara, yang harus bertanggungjawab atas penahanan dirinya.
"Saya memohon maaf, saya bertanggungjawab sepenuhnya," kata Rodman, seraya berkilah dia minum-minum sepanjang satu hari yang menegangkan.
Seoul - Former NBA star Dennis Rodman apologized Thursday for his much-criticized outburst about an American citizen imprisoned in North Korea, saying he was stressed out and had been drinking when he made the remarks on CNN.
The eccentric basketball veteran is in North Korea for a controversial visit that has been rife with bizarre moments, including Rodman´s rendition of "Happy Birthday" to the country´s leader Kim Jong Un at a packed sports stadium on Wednesday.
In an exclusive interview Tuesday with Chris Cuomo of CNN´s "New Day," Rodman provoked outrage by appearing to suggest that Kenneth Bae, who has been held in North Korea since 2012, may have done something to deserve his sentence of 15 years of hard labor.
"I want to first apologize to Kenneth Bae´s family," Rodman, 52, said Thursday in a statement released by his publicist Jules Feiler.
