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Former NBA star Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea

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    Trace Gallagher reports from Los Angeles

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That added up and -- to basketball star who wants more wedding dress to promote his book.

Is visiting one of the world's most repressive countries.

The former NBA great Dennis Rodman in North Korea today along with three members of the famed Harlem Globetrotters.

They're hosting a camp for kids promoting what they called basketball diplomacy.

And they say they want to get the North Korean leader Kim Jung -- Into a game.

Trace Gallagher with the news live for us in Los Angeles.

What is this going on here.

Yeah that's a question -- is why is it -- can be under keeps importing American culture when you look at the country and most Koreans north Koreans in general are not allowed access American culture and life.

Yet last year you had -- the younger hosting a big -- celebration in downtown Pyongyang.

Eric Schmidt the Google chairman was there last month -- now Porsche have Dennis Rodman some say these are all attempts by Kim Jong-un -- to show the global community that he's open to reform.

Rodman says this trip is not political but others disagree listen.

-- -- it's.

Got invited in this -- -- -- -- -- It's important I don't think it really shows that there's going to be any substantial change in the nature of the regime.

-- just shows that Kim -- on happens allied Dennis Rodman in the NBA.

We should know when Eric Schmidt -- their last month the State Department called that quote -- helpful they have no opinion about Rodman strip at all he by the way said he hopes to run into the docking -- style -- while his governorship and he is from South Korea of course -- -- in style confusing therefore -- guess the north and the South Park we did get some troubling news out of North Korea today -- Trace.

Yes yes and human rights groups are saying that satellite images prove that a major good luck just outside of Pyongyang has actually doubled in size in recent years the -- -- course of prison camps that are.

Housing mostly political prisoners and now there are unconfirmed reports that -- the younger is sending members of his father's administration to these camps.

Here again is -- check.

It's not just by any person being put into the camp in detention.

It's usually his or her entire family.

Sometimes two or three generations.

But the conditions in the camps are that are perhaps the worst in the world.

-- adds that former administrations are imprisoned so that current administration's.

Power is not threatened.

-- Trace Gallagher in LA this afternoon.

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