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FILE – In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, in June 2022. The head of Russian proxy forces in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region has sent a message to Kim calling for cooperation amid signs the North is considering sending laborers for restoration projects in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine.

(Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)