China - North Korea Strategic Alliance: a Current State and Further Development

The graduation paper is devoted to the current state of alliance between China and North Korea and its further development. The general purpose of this study is to evaluate the core interests of China and North Korea in the process of bilateral cooperation in the beginning of the XXI century. The first part of the paper is dedicated to the analysis of diplomatic relations between two countries. In the second part of the study the current economic relations of China and DPRK and their perspectives have been explored. And in the third part of the work the military cooperation of the two countries in the frames of the treaty "Of friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance" has been studied. In the Conclusion there are some results that have been received in the process of the research. The total volume of the paper is 55 pages. In this graduation paper different statisic data, scientific monographs, articles (including those in foreign languages) have been used.