Leaders meet at far-eastern base, which most recently hosted ill-fated launch of Luna-25 spacecraft
For his meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, Vladimir Putin has chosen to show off one of his pet projects: a modern cosmodrome he had built in the remote forests of eastern Russia to demonstrate his great aspirations in space exploration.
The Vostochny cosmodrome came into service in 2016 and is in the Amur region of Russia’s far east, not far from the Chinese border and about 930 miles (1,500km) from the port of Vladivostok.
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