Putin, Kim and Xi are meeting in China: BBC correspondents explain why
Russia's leader Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un will stand shoulder to shoulder with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing at a military parade marking 80 years since the end of World War II on 3 September.
It will be the first time these three leaders are meeting in public together.
The BBC's Laura Bicker in China, Steve Rosenberg in Moscow, and Jean Mackenzie in Seoul explain everything you need to know about the meeting, and why it matters.
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