Dennis Rodman breaks down over Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un meeting

Dennis Rodman breaks down in tears while discussing his role in helping to broker today’s historic talks.

Dennis Rodman broke down in tears while discussing his role in helping to broker today’s historic talks between the US and North Korea minutes after the country’s leaders shook hands.

Rodman arrived in Singapore hours before President Donald Trump’s historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Last week, Rodman said he would “give whatever support is needed” to his “friends” Trump and Kim.

Wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and shirt emblazoned with marijuana cryptocurrency network PotCoin.com’s logo, the former NBA player recalled during a CNN interview how he had received death threats when attempting to intervene in the decades old animosity between the two nuclear states.

“When I said those things, when I went back home, I got so many death threats. I got so many death threats while I was protecting everything. I believed in North Korea … I couldn’t even go home. I had to hide out for 30 days. I couldn’t even go home. But I kept my head up high, brother. I knew things was gonna change. I knew it. I was the only one. I never had no one to hear me, I never had no one to see me. I took those bullets, I took all that, everyone came at me and I’m still standing.”

Dennis Rodman. Picture: AFP

Rodman said he was “very naive” when he first visited the dictatorship and had assumed he was travelling to a charity event.

“I knew nothing about North Korea, I just thought I was going to play basketball.” he said.

He said he had gained the trust of Kim when he managed to bring over a basketball team to the nation.

“Kim Jong-un came to me and said you know this is the first time someone has ever, ever kept their word to me and my country.”

When pressed by the visibly bemused CNN anchor on North Korea’s horrific human rights track record, the former NBA player said Kim had always done right by him and he’d prefer to “have a glass of iced tea” and “ talk to each other friendly” than discuss politics.

“He’s a good friend to me, that’s what I look at, I don’t see the politics of the situation,” Rodman said.

Rodman dodged questions on whether Kim could speak English, eventually conceding that the North Korean leader had some grasp of the language.

“I think he understands bits and pieces. If you talk about basketball, yes he understands that.”

He described Kim as “like a big kid, even though he’s small” who “loves to have a good time.”

Picture: Twitter

Rodman claims Trump’s secretary called him this morning and thanked him.

“She [Trump’s secretary] called me and said Donald Trump is so proud of you, he thanks you a lot. And that means a lot. To think that after all these years I have somewhat something to do with this North Korean situation, but I don’t want to take any credit for these two, I think we all need to take credit. I’m just so thankful to be here, and I’m glad this is happening.”

“We don’t need a miracle, we’d just need the doors to be open so we can start afresh and make the world a better place baby.

Rodman his role in the peace process began five years ago when he had lunch with Kim Jong-un who had laid out some demands.

“And he asked me five years ago, we sat down for lunch and he sat down and asked me and said Hey Dennis, I’d like to ask you three things, if you’d like to tell the President of the United States these three things, I’d be willing to talk to him, this is a true story and I got people over there that heard the conversation.”

Rodman said he took his demands to former president Barack Obama who had ignored him.

“I tried to do that to Obama, and Obama didn’t listen, he didn’t give me the time of day, I asked him, I said I have something to say for North Korea, he just brushed me off, but that didn’t deter me.”

White House officials have said Rodman will play no official role in the diplomatic negotiations. Trump said last week that Rodman had not been invited to the summit.

He is one of the few westerners to have met the North Korean leader on visits to the capital city Pyongyang.

With AAP