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The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
Yuki Otsu of Japan goes past Bokyung Kim of Korea during the Men's Football Bronze medal play-off of the London 2012 Olympic Games on August 10, 2012. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)
Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the Ala-Archa state residence in Bishkek, on September 13, 2013. (VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian Prime Miniser Narendra Modi (C) launches the "Make In India" project as Minister for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitaraman looks on in New Delhi on September 25, 2014. (RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Bronze medalist Japanese team members at the medal ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon on September 22, 2014. (INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
Image of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong at 'Fun and Art' Festival on December 13, 2008 in Xian of Shaanxi Province, China. (China Photos/Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (R) at Parliament House in Canberra on July 8, 2014. (MARK GRAHAM/AFP/Getty Images)