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People line up to visit huge portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the 78th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on October 10, 2023. (Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images)

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his policy speech during a plenary session of the House of Representatives at the Diet in Tokyo on January 22, 2016. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

Policemen stand guard while supporters of slain Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio pay their respects during an act organized by the Movimiento Construye party and friends at the Quito Exhibition Center in Quito on August 11, 2023. (Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images)

An A4 paper was seen held by a protester during the demonstration outside the Chinese embassy in London on December 5, 2022. (Hesther Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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The Israel Missile Defense Organization of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development and the US Missile Defense Agency completed a successful flight test campaign with the Arrow-3 Interceptor missile at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, on July 23, 2019. (Missile Defense Agency via DVIDS)

Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on December 2, 2019, in Beijing, China. (Noel Celis/Pool via Getty Images)

General Abdourahmane Tchiani, the head of Nigeia's presidential guard who declared himself the new leader of the country after a coup, in Niamey, Niger, on July 28, 2023. (Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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The US Capitol building is shrouded in haze as smoke from wildfires in Canada brings unhealthy air quality to the East Coast in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2023. ( Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty Images)