Ships ahoy for today's Geo Quiz.

We're looking for a North Asian country which signed a ship boarding pact with the United States this week.

The ship boarding pact means this country would allow US authorities to board and search its ships if they were suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction.

Our mystery nation is a landlocked country, hundreds of miles away from the closest sea. That would be the Yellow Sea, by the way.

This landlocked nation has no navy, yet it boasts a fleet of 60 merchant ships. But this country is better known for arid steppes, a very large desert, and herds of yaks.
So where do the ships call home?

We'll be back with this answer and the name of our mystery country in a ' fleeting' moment