English Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between mineral exports to China, North Korea's most … important source of foreign currency acquisition, and its imports of various items from China from the first quarter of 1995 … goods, such as industrial supplies, parts and accessories, imply that mineral exports to China could have a positive effect …

data. We use quarterly data from 2006 to 2017, when China accounted for more than half of North Korea's total foreign trade … affected by the export price of coal to China, and thus shows a tendency to be linked to changes in international mineral … prices. When we decompose North Korea’s exports and imports with China from 2006 to 2016 into price factors and quantity …

Union before 1990, and with South Korea, China, and Japan after 1990, accounted for 70%-90% of its total trade, showing a … China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, South Korea, and Japan, as of 2016, North Korea’s export structure showed an …