BLUF:[Dejour] Interviewer - What was your first impression of the people of North Korea?
Rodman - They work very hard and they take pride in the simple things in life. Whatever their job is, they do it to the best of their ability. I’m not sure anyone there knows how to be lazy, they have a lot of focus. The citizens there are very kind ... but it’s like you’d think these people have a spell on them because all they talk about is him [Kim Jong-un.] I mean it’s insane. I am so intrigued about how they live their lives through this guy ... and he is only, like, 33, 34 years old. He is changing North Korea so much it is really becoming a 24th-century country now -- it’s more like they took down the Flintstone Age and put in the Jetsons. Out with the old, in with the new.