Kim Jong Un travels to China for military parade
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
North Korean leader arrives in Beijing by armoured train to meet President Xi Jinping and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. It's the North Korean leader's first visit to China in six years. Also: Brazil's Supreme Court begins final hearings for Jair Bolsonaro and several military officers accused of leading a coup plot to subvert the results of the 2022 election; a new test to detect memory decline years before diagnosis; and 40 years on we hear from the man who found the wreck of the Titanic.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.5 | I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday the 2nd of September, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.7 | On a rare trip outside North Korea, Kim Jong-un is in China to meet President Xi Jinping and other leaders, including Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:19.0 | Brazil's Supreme Court is beginning the final stage of Jao Bolsonaro's trial on charges |
| 0:24.3 | of plotting a coup after losing the presidential election. |
| 0:27.7 | And a simple new test that can detect Alzheimer's in its early stages. |
| 0:34.1 | Also in this podcast, why an Australian state is banning mini fish-shaped soy sauce containers. |
| 0:41.0 | The lid and the body of the fish are not compatible. |
| 0:44.5 | You can't simply throw them away and have them recycled. |
| 0:47.4 | And it's also the case that they're so small that they tend to fall out of any recycling. |
| 0:52.1 | And later. |
| 0:52.8 | We were at the very spot where all these lost souls had gone down and they were no longer lost. |
| 1:01.9 | We hear from the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic 40 years ago this week. |
| 1:10.1 | It was late afternoon in northeastern China when a dark green armoured train called Sunshine |
| 1:16.1 | rattled into the Beijing railway station. On board, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, |
| 1:22.8 | sitting in a wood-paneled carriage surrounded by AIDS and with a big North Korean flag behind him on the wall. |
| 1:29.7 | Mr. Kim, who was then driven in a motorcade through the city, will attend a huge military parade |
| 1:35.5 | in the Chinese capital on Wednesday. It will be the first time he's been at an international |
| 1:40.6 | gathering alongside other heads of state. Ahead of that, it's been another busy day for President Xi |
| 1:46.4 | and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:49.1 | They sat down for tea and cakes in the president's house |
| 1:52.1 | and some equally palatable rhetoric. |
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