Russian Far East North Korean leader "shows great interest in Russian rocket technology.

The Russian Far East is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent

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The Russian head of state told reporters that the North Korean leader "shows great interest in rocket technology" as the nation is trying to develop its space industry.

Vostochny is Russia's first civilian spaceport. It is located in the Amur Region near the town of Tsiolkovsky.

The Russian president signed a 2007 decree to build the spaceport, and construction began in 2012.

The first launch from Vostochny took place on April 28, 2016 when the Soyuz-2.1a rocket put into orbit the research and educational satellites Lomonosov and Aist-2D, as well as the nanosatellite SamSat-218 that had been made by students.
 
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