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There aren’t many things worse than having to deal with a petulant toddler who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “no” thanks to parents who’ve done everything to ensure their special snowflake hasn’t had to face any real adversity in life.
However, there’s at least one thing that is worse than that: when that toddler has access to nuclear weapons and seems to have no qualms about using them.
Sadly, that’s basically what we’re dealing with when we’re talking about North Korea, a country headed by a ruthless dictator with a penchant for enslaving his impoverished subjects, using anti-aircraft guns to execute anyone he perceives as an enemy, and sending medical bills to countries after beating their citizens to death.
As a result, I think it’s safe to say Kim Jong Un is a bit of a dick, but as I alluded to before, he’s a dick with nukes, so the world has been largely forced to tolerate him.
However, that hasn’t stopped the United States from doing what it can to convince the ruler to give up his toys, and in recent years, plenty of efforts have been made in an attempt to denuclearize the country.
In February, Donald Trump met with Kim in Hanoi in a summit that ultimately never went anywhere. Ahead of the meeting, North Korea issued a list of demands concerning what it would take to smooth relations—one of which seems to be straight out of Space Jam.
According to ABC News, Kim—a noted basketball fan and famous friend of Dennis Rodman—said he wanted America to send a group of famous players to North Korea in an attempt to normalize relations between the countries—an ask that the United States declined.
While I doubt Kim was planning to pull a Mr. Swackhammer and enslave the athletes to force them to play games for his enjoyment, based on North Korea’s long history of abducting foreign nationals, I think it’s safe to say America was fairly wise to err on the side of caution and decline the request on the off chance he wanted to construct his own personal version of Moron Mountain.
LeBron is already busy enough making Space Jam 2 and I assume he’d prefer if it wasn’t a documentary.