the two Koreas signs a denuclearization agreement, and the North agrees to inspections! Yippee!

3-9-2018    In 1985 NK joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, thanks to Soviet pressure.  But then-leader Kim Il-sung wouldn't agree to inspections unless the U.S. removed its own nuclear weapons from South Korea.

In 199 President George H. W. Bush agreed to remove those nukes; the following year, the two Koreas signed a denuclearization agreement, and the North agreed to inspections.  https://www.abcactionnews.com/newsy/north-korea-has-a-long-history-of-deals-with-the-us-to-denuclearize

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A Chinese ship fitted with communications equipment docked alongside the new Canberra-class landing helicopter dock...That's a space surveillance ship, it's a scientific ship," he told reporters on board HMAS Adelaide.

ABC News understands the primary purpose of the Chinese ship is to track satellite launches from out on the ocean, but it does have the capability to also collect intelligence on other naval vessels.

he HMAS Adelaide is expected to be carefully scrutinised by its temporary neighbour. (File Photo: CPL Kyle Genner)