North Korea's biggest trading partner is China — and it's not even close
China has historically been North Korea's biggest trading partner — and it's not even close.
Business Insider put together two charts comparing North Korea's imports and exports by country using 2015 data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC), a project conducted at the MIT Media Lab Macro Connections group.
In 2015, 85% of imports came from China, according to the OEC. The isolated nation's next biggest trade partner was India, from which North Korea got 3.5% of its
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