It’s been claimed that former basketball star Dennis Rodman may have prevented “Armageddon” by making friends with Kim Jong-un. The names of political figures from around the globe aren’t always quite so well known everywhere, but the name Kim Jong-un is one that was impossible to block out, especially in the 2010s. The now-40-year-old became the supreme leader of North Korea in 2011 and remains in that position of power. In the 2010s, Americans suffered suffocating paranoia regarding North Korea’s expanding nuclear weapons program, fuelling tensions between the two countries. Amid fears of an…