NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Former NBA player Dennis Rodman says he would trade places with American Kenneth Bae who is currently held in captivity by North Korea.
In an interview with CNN Friday from a substance abuse rehabilitation clinic in the New York area, Rodman said, "I have sympathy. I don't want anyone in any country or anywhere in the world to be a hostage for something maybe they did or did not do."
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He also said that he was willing to trade places with Bae the next time he visited his friend, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.
Rodman checked himself into a rehabilitation center for alcohol abuse after his first interview regarding Bae, and the following apology in which he admitted he had been drinking.