중국은 1990대 후반 북한과의 교역 관계를 넓혀 가면서 북중 경제적 상호의존은 남북, 북러 경제적 상호의존보다 높게 나타났다.
As China expanded its trade relations with North Korea in the late 1990s, the economic interdependence between North Korea and China was higher than that of North Korea and Russia.