Dennis Rodman says Kim Jong Un loves karaoke, TV theme tunes, and 80s music

Dennis Rodman

has opened up about his unlikely friend, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, saying he loves karaoke, TV theme tunes and playing table tennis.

The former basketball player, 55, described Jong-un as “friend for life” and claimed he told him that he doesn’t hate America, and that he has no intention of using nuclear weapons.

“When he’s around his people, he’s just like anybody else,” Rodman told Dujour. “He jokes and loves playing basketball, table tennis, pool. They love American ’80s music. They do karaoke to it.

“He has this 13-piece girls band with violins. He gets a mic and they play the whole time. He loves the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Oldies. When I first went, the live band only played two songs for four hours: the theme songs from Rocky and Dallas.”

Rodman said he is extremely close to the supreme leader and claimed to be the first person to hold his baby daughter Kim Ju-ae.

He said: “I’ve been around his whole family; I’ve held his baby. No one’s ever held his baby before but me. I got pictures of me holding his infant. I gave [his daughter] a little Rodman jersey, we took pictures of it.