Kazakhstan, the Requisite Model and Mediator to North Korean Denuclearization

... Kazakhstan is eager to take part in the process and can offer both technical assistance and political incentives to denuclearize. Kazakhstan has great potential to act as both a mediator for the process and a model for North Korean prosperity after denuclearization is complete. Maxim Suchkov: North Korea's Nuclear, A View from Moscow Background Kazakhstan has a long, and rather tragic, history with nuclear weapons. The largest nuclear testing site in the world at the time, Semipalatinsk, was based in Kazakhstan and was the site for the first test of the Soviet atomic bomb in 1949. By the time the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Kazakhstan had inherited ...