Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in the North.
前NBA球星丹尼斯˙羅德曼正拿他跟北韓領導人金正恩的友誼，要求（金正恩）釋放一名遭北韓判處15年勞改的韓裔美國人。
"I’m calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea or as I call him ’Kim’, to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose," Rodman said on Twitter. He later called the tweet a direct response to a Seattle Times editorial that dared him to ask Kim for the release if the two are really buddies.
「我請求北韓最高領導人，或如我對他的稱呼『金』，幫我一個忙，放了裴俊浩，」羅德曼在推特上寫道。他稍後稱此推文是直接回應西雅圖時報的一篇社論，該社論激他說，若他與金正恩真的是好友，就要求金正恩放人。
Rodman visited North Korea in February and sat next to Kim as they watched an exhibition basketball game. His trip came at a time of high tension between Pyongyang and Washington and was not endorsed by the U.S. State Department.
羅德曼2月份造訪北韓，並與金正恩並肩而坐，觀賞一場籃球表演賽。他此行正值平壤與華府緊張關係高峰期，且未獲美國國務院認可。
Bae is a tour operator who was arrested in North Korea in November. The North’s Supreme Court sentenced him for unspecified "hostile acts" against the state. In a Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday, North Korea said the 44-year-old Washington state man entered the country with a disguised identity. （AP）
裴俊浩是一名旅遊業者，去年11月在北韓被捕。北韓最高法院以他對北韓從事內容不詳的「敵視行為」對他判刑。北韓外交部週日發表聲明指出，44歲、來自（美國）華盛頓州的裴俊浩，入境北韓時掩飾個人身分。（美聯社）
新聞辭典
do someone a solid：慣用語，美式俚語，請人幫忙，同do someone a favor，也有owe someone a solid的用法，意思是感謝對方幫忙，欠人一份情。
call on：慣用語，號召、請求。例句：She called on her friends for their help, but they refused.（她請求朋友幫忙，但遭拒絕。）
cut loose：慣用語，釋放、擺脫束縛。
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