Poland is one of the few countries that maintain diplomatic and limited trading (fishing) relations with Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

[2] Poland recognized the DPRK on 16 October 1948 as the sole legitimate government of the whole Korea, when both countries had Soviet-installed communist regimes.

After Poland and Czechoslovakia ceased to be communist, the Korean People's Army took over the camps and expelled the Poles and Czechs in 1993; however, Poland continues to send representatives to commission meetings twice a year, which the NNSC regards as legitimizing its position with 75% of the original delegations intact.

[8] As of 2017[update]:[8] The only company with Polish capital that operated in North Korea was Chopol, a now-defunct joint venture between Poland and North-Korea that dealt in the maritime transport of goods.

It was liquidated in July 2018 by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs after a long period of inactivity.