Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un have pledged to deepen strategic coordination in their first formal summit in six years, after they put on an unprecedented show of unity against the West alongside Russia’s Vladimir Putin at a massive military parade.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un joined China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing for a military parade on Sept.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told Chinese President Xi Jinping that their countries’ “friendship will never change” even as the international situation shifts around them, North Korean state media reported Friday.