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A digital display stock index is seen in Lujiazui, China, on March 9, 2026. (Getty Images)
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North and South Korea
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US and Korean soldiers prepare for take off during an air assault mission as part of exercise Freedom Shield 24 on March 13, 2024, at Wonju Air Base in South Korea. (US Army Photo by KPfc. Lee Hyun Bin)
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People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing at a railway station on January 6, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting in Amur Oblast, Russia, on September 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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The flags of Russia, China, and North Korea on a viewing tower on the border between the three countries in Hunchun, China, on June 25, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
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Newly elected US House Speaker Mike Johnson is sworn in at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 25, 2023. (Tome Brenner/AFP via Getty Images)
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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)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un before a meeting April 25, 2019, in Vladivostok, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov via Getty Images)
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Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu at a meeting ceremony in North Korea on July 25, 2023. (Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons)
