Dennis Rodman says his meetings helped move Kim Jong Un

By Katelyn Caralle

Published April 30, 2018 3:36pm ET

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Dennis Rodman says his meetings helped move Kim Jong Un — In this Jan. 8, 2014 photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, talks with former NBA player Dennis Rodman, right, as they watch an exhibition basketball game at an indoor stadium in Pyongyang. North Korea is expecting another visit by former NBA bad boy Rodman on Tuesday, June 13, 2017, in what would be his first to the country since President Donald Trump took office. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. | (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman says he probably helped push North Korea to meet with South Korea and to allow dictator Kim Jong Un to meet soon with President Trump.

Rodman said the most recent time he visited Kim in North Korea for his birthday, he brought him Trump’s books, and he says that made the North Korean leader really realize who Trump is.

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