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![National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo, right, shakes hands with Li Zhanshu, chairman of China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, in a joint press conference in Seoul on Friday. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/09/16/bd058c9a-3c77-46f0-957e-7d34fa274927.jpg)
National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo, right, shakes hands with Li Zhanshu, chairman of China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, in a joint press conference in Seoul on Friday. [YONHAP]
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