Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un in Vladivostok, Russia in April 2019.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will be among the guests of honour at a victory parade in Beijing next week to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will inspect tens of thousands of troops as they march on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on Sept. 3, in a major show of both military force and China’s diplomatic clout.

As well as Mr. Putin and Mr. Kim, 24 other foreign heads of state will be in attendance, China’s foreign ministry said Thursday, including Belarusian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.

Russia’s

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