Rudy Giuliani said Kim Jong Un "got back on his hands and knees and begged" for the reinstatement of a summit between the US and North Korea.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has boasted that the US president brought North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to his "hands and knees" after cancelling a high-profile summit.
Addressing a business conference, Giuliani, now Trump's lawyer, also said that special counsel Robert Mueller's team is trying to frame US President Donald Trump.
Last month, Trump cancelled the high-stakes June 12 summit in Singapore in a courteous and formal letter blaming "tremendous anger and open hostility" in statements from the North.
Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and an attorney for Donald Trump, has boasted that the US president brought North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to his "hands and knees" after cancelling a high-profile summit.
Giuliani told the crowd that there was no choice but to cancel the June 12 summit after Kim insulted the US Vice President Mike Pence and national security adviser John Bolton and threatened nuclear war. He said that Trump's tough line had forced Kim to plead to reschedule their summit.
"We said, 'Well, we're not going to have a summit under those circumstances'," Giuliani said. "Well, Kim Jong Un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, which is exactly the position you want to put him in."
US President Donald Trump received a giant letter North Korea's from Kim Jong Un.
The summit is now back on for next Tuesday in Singapore.
Guiliani's comments are not likely to be well received in North Korea and risk starting another tit-for-tat verbal stoush like the one that derailed the conference last month.
Kim was enraged by Pence and Bolton's comments that compared North Korea to Libya, where leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his unfinished nuclear development program, only to be later killed by NATO-backed fighters.
Robert Mueller is leading a separate probe into alleged collusion between the Russia and the Trump campaign.
It triggered the inflammatory statements from North Korea that Trump cited as his reason for cancelling the summit.
However, Giuliani suggested similar hard-nosed tactics should be used with the Palestinian Authority, which has cut off ties with the US to protest Trump's decision to recognise contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
"They have to be seeking peace. You gotta change the dynamic and put the pressure on them," Giuliani said.
Meanwhile, Giuliani also continued his attacks on the probe into Russia's potential meddling in US elections. Trump's team and allies have waged a public relations campaign against Mueller and the Justice Department to discredit the investigation and soften the impact of the special counsel's potential findings.
"There are a group of 13 highly partisan Democrats who make up the Mueller team, excluding him, and are trying very, very hard to frame him to get him in trouble when he hasn't done anything wrong," said Giuliani, who has been serving as Trump's lawyer amid the Russia scandal.
"They can't emotionally come to grips with the fact that this whole thing with Russian collusion didn't happen. They are trying to invent theories of obstruction of justice," Giuliani told the business conference in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
"They have revealed no evidence that President Trump has done anything wrong," he added. "None."
Mueller is investigating whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia during the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump took steps to shut down that investigation through actions, including the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Giuliani has become a lightning rod during his tenure on Trump's team, drawing the President's ire for a series of scattershot interviews.