Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman's colorful tweets from the heart of North Korea appear to have upset South Korea's best-known cultural export, the "Gangnam Style" rapper Psy.

In one of several tweets since he arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday with members of the Harlem Globetrotters, the retired basketball Hall of Famer wondered if he might meet up with Psy during his stay in the North.

"Maybe I'll run into the Gangnam Style dude while I'm here," he tweeted.

Whether Rodman was joking or not, Psy clearly decided he needed to be set right on the geo-politics of the divided Korean peninsula, and which side he hails from.

"@dennisrodman I'm from #SOUTH man!!!" the singer retorted on his twitter feed Wednesday.

AFP - Global Times