Dennis Rodman back in N. Korea

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Former U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea on Tuesday (September 3) for a five-day visit, his second this year and said he had no plans to try to negotiate the release of a jailed American missionary.

There had been media speculation that Rodman would try to secure the freedom of Kenneth Bae, who has been jailed for 15 years after being convicted of trying to overthrow the Pyongyang government.

Rodman's latest trip is being sponsored by an Irish bookmaker and he said en route that he was going to meet his friend Kim and possibly help start a basketball league.

Rodman met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on his first trip this year, filming a documentary in March, at a time when Pyongyang was threatening the United States, South Korea and Japan with missile strikes. The American then called Kim, who rules unchallenged in a country where there are an estimated 150,000-200,000 prisoners in work camps, "an aweso