Former NBA player,
Dennis Rodman received Humanitarian
Special Award at World Humanitarian Award (WHA). Dennis Rodman
got this award because of his contribution on his effort to
unite U.S. and North Korea. He is also known as the first U.S.
citizen who got the chance to meet North Korea President, Kim Jong-un. Besides being a former NBA player Dennis also known
with his TV series: The Rodman World Tour and some of
Hollywood films; Double Teams and Simon Sez.
Dennis Rodman is involved in the movie Dennis Rodman’s
Big Bang in PyongYang directed by Colin Offland. This
documentary film tells us about what happened when he wants to
improve relations between North Korea and the US by staging a
historic basketball game between the two countries and the true
story of what happened when Dennis took a team of former-NBA
players to North Korea and staged the most controversial game of
basketball the world has never seen. This movie itself received
International Humanitarian Platinum Award in the Documentary
Film category.
World Humanitarian Award said that the reason behind the
awarding of Humanitarian Special Award to Dennis Rodman is
because of his contribution for peace in the region. Even though
he used to be known by his controversial attitude in the past
but he still wants to do something meaningful for humanity by
trying to unite U.S. and North Korea. WHA also hopes that this
award will give example to the next generations to keep on
trying to make peace for the world despite of the difficulties
and end result.
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