SEOUL: Flamboyant basketball star Dennis Rodman says his mission to Pyongyang is an attempt to “open doors” with the isolated country, as the US focuses on the release from North Korean custody of a comatose student.

In a video filmed in Beijing before an unresponsive Otto Warmbier was evacuated to the United States suffering from brain damage, the eccentric ex-Chicago Bull said he wanted to build bridges with the Stalinist state.

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