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Russian president's envoy Konstantin Pulikovsky,left, welcomes North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, fifth from left, at the Russian border rail-way station station of Khasan, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2002. Kim Jong Il crossed the border into Russia early Tuesday for his second visit in two summers, a four-day train tour of the wast country's eastern reaches to be capped by a meeting with the President. Sergei Darkin, governor of Russia's Far East region walks at right. (AP Photo/ Igor Kochetkov)