# China’s President Xi visits North Korea to talk nuclear programme Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ft-news-briefing-73509/china-s-president-xi-visits-north-korea-to-talk-nuclear-programme Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/ft-news-briefing-73509/china-s-president-xi-visits-north-korea-to-talk-nuclear-programme.md Podcast: [FT News Briefing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ft-news-briefing-73509) Published: 2026-06-08T04:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/ftnewsbriefing/episodes/chinas-president-xi-visits-north-korea-to-talk-nuclear-progr Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/ftnewsbriefing/e/6a2626f84330c50bd3294294/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ft-news-briefing-73509/episodes/china-s-president-xi-visits-north-korea-to-talk-nuclear-programme Duration seconds: 745 ## Resource Iran and Israel trade fire testing a two-month ceasefire, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Pyongyang for his first trip to North Korea in seven years. Plus, software buyout deals have collapsed to the lowest levels since the Covid-19 pandemic, and the head of the OECD has warned governments around the world not to go it alone in taxing large multinationals. Mentioned in this podcast: Israel launches retaliatory air strikes on Iran Trump says Netanyahu will have ‘no choice’ but to accept a deal with Iran Software buyout deals collapse to lowest level since pandemic after AI rout Xi Jinping heads to North Korea for first trip in 7 years OECD chief urges governments not to go it alone on digital taxation Want to get in touch? Email us at podcasts@ft.com Note: The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts  The FT News Briefing is produced by Victoria Craig, Sonja Hutson, Saffeya Ahmed, Katya Kumkova, and Fiona Symon. Our editor is Marc Filippino. Our show was mixed by Alex Higgins. Additional help from Peter Barber. Our intern is Cole van Miltenburg. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. Flo Phillips is the FT’s global head of audio. The show’s theme music is by Metaphor Music.  Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ft-news-briefing-73509/episodes/china-s-president-xi-visits-north-korea-to-talk-nuclear-programme/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/ft-news-briefing-73509/china-s-president-xi-visits-north-korea-to-talk-nuclear-programme.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.