Former NBA star Dennis Rodman on Tuesday said he was heading back to Pyongyang to see his "friend", North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, but refused to say if he would come back with an imprisoned US citizen.

Korean-American Kenneth Bae, 44, has been held prisoner in the North since November, and Rodman had said last week that he might seek the man's release.

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