Kazakhstan, the Requisite Model and Mediator to North Korean Denuclearization

... risking further proliferation of weapons grade highly enriched uranium (HEU). Furthermore, Kazakhstan is an example of how a country that willingly denuclearizes can prosper economically and politically. After Kazakhstan got rid of its large repository of nuclear weapons and closed down the world’s largest testing site, both inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country became a mecca for foreign and multilateral investment. It was also better able to equip its conventional army and ...