Video: Basketball star Dennis Rodman arrives in North Korea Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills on Tuesday and flamboyant style, tattoos, nose studs and all, to a country with possibly the world's strictest dress code: North Korea. Landing in Pyongyang, the American athlete is an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the US and North Korea. Rodman is joining three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team and a VICE news correspondent for a news show on North Korea that will air on HBO later this year. Rodman and VICE said the Americans hope to engage in a little "basketball diplomacy" by running a basketball camp for children and playing with North Korea's top basketball stars, and, they hope, drawing leader Kim Jong-un to a game. "It's my first time, I think it's most of these guys' first time here, so hopefully everything's going to be OK, and hoping the kids have a good time for the game," Rodman said at Pyongyang airport.