Early contacts between the Koreans and Turks can be traced back to antiquity, when the
GöktĂŒrks had supported ancient
Goguryeo, a Korean kingdom, during their expansion and also assisted them against Tang Chinese forces. As both GöktĂŒrks and Goguryeo were threatened by the
Tang dynasty of China, they formed a political, economical, and military alliance.[2][3][4] GöktĂŒrk soldiers assisted Goguryeo in many battles, including in the war against
Silla, another Korean kingdom, and Tang China; this alliance went on extended to the
Balhae as well.[5][6][7] Commerce and correspondence was also maintained through the ancient
Silk Road after a part of the ancient
Oghuz Turks migrated westward and settled in the lands of Anatolia (today Turkey).[8]
Until 2001,[9]North Korea's post-
World War II policy toward
Turkey was mainly aimed at minimizing cooperation between
Turkey and
South Korea.[10] In a quest to end its diplomatic and economic isolation,[11] North Korea established diplomatic relations on June 27, 2001.[1]
When the Bush administration determined that North Korea was in violation of the 1994 agreement on
North Korea's nuclear weapons program,[12][13] bilateral relations between the two nations have been very limited.[12]
Economic relations
Trade volume between the two countries was negligible in 2019.[1]
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abUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. North Korea: Status Report on Nuclear Program, Humanitarian Issues, and Economic Reforms. 108th Cong., 2d sess. Washington, DC: GPO, 2004.
http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2004/[permanent dead link] DPRKTripReport.pdf.
^Wit, Joel, Daniel Poneman, and Robert Gallucci. Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2004.