CHINA
China Says Its Trade With North Korea has Increased
Jane Perlez and Yufan Huang, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Amid sharply rising tensions over North Korea’s nuclear arms program, China said on Thursday that its trade with the country had expanded, even though it had complied with United Nations sanctions and stopped buying North Korean coal, which is a major source of hard currency for Pyongyang. The data showed that China’s trade with North Korea grew 37.4 percent in the first quarter of this year from the period in 2016. Chinese exports surged 54.5 percent, and imports increased 18.4 percent, the General Administration …read more
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