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FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and China's Vice Chairman of the standing committee of the country's National People's Congress Li Hongzhong, right, attend a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War, on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 27, 2023. Shoigu visited Pyongyang in what the U.S. saw as part of Moscow's efforts to negotiate for supplies of North Korean munitions. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)