China's exports to North Korea in the first half of 2025 grew 33% on the year to $1.05 billion, while imports rose 20% to ...

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

China's trade with North Korea in the first half of 2025 rose about 30 percent from a year earlier, official data showed ...

Weeks after his country was battered by waves of Israeli strikes and the US bombed three of its prized nuclear facilities, ...

While its relations with China are treading rough waters, North Korea and Russia are closer than ever before. The first country that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un chose to visit after the end of ...

In the early 1990s, though, geopolitical shifts inevitably brought fundamental changes to China-North Korea relations. China’s reform and opening up and the establishment of diplomatic relations ...

“North Korea is now a more important ally for Russia than Iran or China,” said Oleg Ignatov, senior Russia analyst for Crisis ...

Xi said China intended to “successfully defend, consolidate and develop” the bilateral relations, Yonhap said. North Korea heavily relies on China for its food, arms and fuel. Filed under ...

Relations might actually improve and, if they do, relations between China and North Korea could be expected to remain distant and perhaps even continue to worsen. If that happens, Washington could be ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - As close as lips and teeth. Linked by mountains and rivers. A friendship worth more than all the gold in the world. The clichés come fast when China and North Korea, two ...

Exports of luxury goods to North Korea are banned under U.N. sanctions but such items reportedly make their way into the ...

“China has noticed that North Korea's controls on Chinese cultural content have relaxed as the country harshly cracks down on South Korean content,” a source told Daily NK. There are signs ...