Diplomatic briefing
Embassy of India, Pyongyang
EmbassyKorea (DPR) · Ambassador: Shri Aliawati Longkumer
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In short
India’s embassy in Korea (DPR) records bilateral trade of $80.8m, a reported community of 16 and a UN voting alignment with India of 63%. Led by Shri Aliawati Longkumer, ambassador.
Total bilateral trade
$80.8m
US dollars · as stated in the brief
Source· retrieved 1 hour ago
Bilateral Brief — Korea (DPR)
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Commercial and Economic Relations - with trade, and investment details” section
“5 TOTAL TRADE 462.16 199.29 208.45 198.78 133.43 80.85”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
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Overseas Indians
Medium confidence16
persons · as of Jan 2026
Source· retrieved 1 day ago
Population of Overseas Indians
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: row "Korea (DPR)"
“PIOs 1 + NRIs 15 = 16”
Published: undated · Read: 7 October 2026
MEA publishes no methodology for these estimates and told a Parliamentary committee it holds "no authentic data". The page also repeats some countries from an older vintage with the PIO/NRI columns swapped; the first occurrence is used here. This country appears 2× on the page.
UN votes matching India’s
63%
share of UNGA votes matching India’s · UNGA session 78
Source· retrieved 12 hours ago
United Nations General Assembly Voting Data — Ideal Point Estimates
Source: Bailey, Strezhnev & Voeten — Harvard Dataverse
Where: row “North Korea”, session 78, IndiaAgree over 79 votes
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
UN General Assembly Voting Data (v39), non-commercial licence. The share is the dataset’s own IndiaAgree column — roll-call votes on which this country and India voted the same way, as the dataset defines agreement — not our calculation. Independent of MEA.
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The relationship, in figures
Trade
Exports to Korea (DPR)US dollars · as stated in the brief$55.4m
Bilateral Brief — Korea (DPR)
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Commercial and Economic Relations - with trade, and investment details” section
“1. EXPORT 202.78 186.80 76.52 110.88 44.84 55.39”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
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Imports from Korea (DPR)US dollars · as stated in the brief$25.5m
Bilateral Brief — Korea (DPR)
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “Commercial and Economic Relations - with trade, and investment details” section
“3 IMPORT 259.39 12.48 131.93 87.90 88.59 25.46”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
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Trade balance in India’s favourUS dollars · as stated in the brief · our calculation$29.9m
Exports minus imports, as stated in the same briefing (in USD)
exports − imports
Diplomacy
Most recent high-level visityear of the visit · as stated in the brief2016
Bilateral Brief — Korea (DPR)
Source: Ministry of External Affairs, India
Where: “High Level visits from DPRK to India” section
“Mr. Kang Il Sop, Chairman of the State Commission for Emergency & Disaster Management of DPRK to attend the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction from 2-5 November 2016.”
Published: undated · Read: 8 October 2026
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Agreements on record (0)
MEA Treaties DatabaseMEA's treaties database returns no agreements recorded against this country.
The briefing
MEA publishes a bilateral brief — 29 sections, 13,728 characters of extractable text. Sections include: India-DPR Korea Relations · Political Relations: · Peninsula · DPRK) · including: · Government Functions: Training covers.
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