Major stakeholders in North Korea’s space program got together for a national symposium, state media reported on Wednesday, once again underscoring the country’s renewed interest in promoting its aerospace developments after apparently trying to hide them in 2018.

The 2020 Symposium on Space Science and Technology was held to “accelerate” development of the aerospace sector, which has grown steadily in recent years, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Students and scientists from the country’s top institutions also reviewed and promoted recent “successes in the work for carrying out the policy of the Party and the government on