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While China follows new sanctions against North Korea, they cooperate each other to strengthen the economic market by expanding non-commodity trading services near their border region. Moreover, this trend is expected to grow regardless of sanctions. It is very likely that the Chinese government will reinvigorate the border areas of Dandong, where is known as the major trade hub with North Korea, and Yanbian Province which is near Russia. The current Chinese policies that are related to the northeast region – North Korean and Russia – direct to revitalize the economy by improving and strengthening the trade infrastructures through the interconnection between the border regions. Moreover, China’s Northeast region’s small and medium cities are actively engaging in economic cooperative projects with North Korea involving opening up of North Korea’s economy as a part of its own economic development policies. Among modes of trade, border trade is reflective of characteristics of border areas. Chinese companies in the border areas favor conducting transactions with North Korea through such “border trade.” It is because there is more room to utilize unofficial methods in foreign exchange control, price settlement, and tax rebate through border trade than through general trade. Taking various unofficial trade practices into account, the scale of trade between North Korea and China is very likely to far exceed the figures recorded officially by Chinese customs. North Korea is receiving payments in cash for processing imported materials commissioned by Chinese companies. Such cash brought into the North is easy to hide and there is high possibility that North Korean authorities divert such cash for their own operations The purpose of this study divided into three sections as following: examining the development status of North Korea and its border region with China, developing and offering the executable strategies of Korean companies’ entry into the border regions, and examining the positive and negative impacts with proposing countermeasures. Also, this research aims to analyze the effect that recently facilitated North Korea and China’s economic relations have on North Korean economy and find the implications this has on inter—Korean economic integration and the development of Northeast Asian economic community.