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When Chinese Leader Xi Jinping strode into Tiananmen Square for this week’s massive military parade in Beijing, he arrived with Russian President Vladimir Putin on his right and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un on his left. This was just one of many wins for Kim, who wants to be accepted on the international stage as the leader of a normal country, instead of a global pariah. The World’s Matthew Bell reports.