Szalontai, Balázs, and Changyong Choi

Abstract
This article investigates the causes of North Korea’s failure to pursue export-oriented industrialization, and examines whether Sino-North Korean economic cooperation might facilitate such a transformation or not. It concludes that Sino-North Korean economic interactions are more likely to reinforce North Korea’s traditional resource dependency than to stimulate export-oriented industrialization.
 
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