North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, center, introduces his staff to Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, prior to their talks in Moscow's Kremlin, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2001. Putin and Kim opened talks in the Kremlin Saturday that were expected to renew economic and other ties between the two once ideological allies. (Photo by Sergi Velichkin/AP Photo/ITAR-TASS/Presidential Press Service)
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