Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping attend a plenary session at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on October 24, 2024. (Maxim Shemetov/AFP via Getty Images)
A television news screen in Seoul, South Korea, on March 17, 2023, shows a picture of North Korea's test-firing of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images)