Kazakhstan, the Requisite Model and Mediator to North Korean Denuclearization

... active in the implementation of several denuclearization treaties, and is currently International Atomic Energy Association’s (IAEA) favored partner . The IAEA even chose Kazakhstan as the site of the world’s first Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank, a ... ... (CTBT) in 2002, and became party to the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2004 . The DPRK began to pursue nuclear weapons in 1963, but their requests for help in this endeavor were denied by both China and the Soviet ...