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Washington, July 12 (IANS) South Korea and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) signed an agreement on a mutual recognition process for military airworthiness certification, NATO's first such deal with an Asian country. Korea's Defence Acquisition Programme Administration and NATO's Aviation Committee inked the agreement, a key measure of a plane's suitability for safe flight, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, Yonhap news agency reported. Under the deal signed on Thursday, NATO will recognise the Seoul government's airworthiness certification for South Korean-made planes. While South Korea has signed agreements with the United States, Spain, France and Poland,…