Kazakhstan welcomes North Korea’s moratorium on nuclear tests

    “Kazakhstan welcomes the decision on part of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to freeze its nuclear weapons tests,” Official Spokesman for the Kazakh Foreign Ministry Altai Abibullayev said at a briefing.
    “Kazakhstan, as country that voluntarily abandoned its nuclear weapons and shut down one of the world’s largest nuclear testing ranges, the Semipalatinsk testing area, supports a general prohibition of nuclear weapons tests, and calls on all parties to the negotiation process to take measures for the demobilization of the Korean peninsula,” he added, according to Gazeta.kz