Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turns out Dennis Rodman was pulling a Julia Child with his NK visit?

Highly doubtful given Rodman's propensity for being a complete idiot (unlike Child), but it would be hilarious if it were actually the case.

It's the only thing I know that can explain the utter randomness of the whole story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child

Child joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) after finding that she was too tall to enlist in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) or in the U.S. Navy's WAVES.[5] She began her OSS career as a typist at its headquarters in Washington, but because of her education and experience soon was given a more responsible position as a top secret researcher working directly for the head of OSS, General William J. Donovan.[6] As a research assistant in the Secret Intelligence division, she typed 10,000 names on white note cards to keep track of officers. For a year, she worked at the OSS Emergency Rescue Equipment Section (ERES) in Washington, D.C. as a file clerk and then as an assistant to developers of a shark repellent needed to ensure that sharks would not explode ordnance targeting German U-boats. In 1944 she was posted to Kandy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), where her responsibilities included "registering, cataloging and channeling a great volume of highly classified communications" for the OSS's clandestine stations in Asia.[7] She was later posted to China, where she received the Emblem of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.[8] For her service, Child received an award that cited her many virtues, including her "drive and inherent cheerfulness."[6] As with other OSS records, Child's file was declassified in 2008, and, unlike other files, her complete file is available online