Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave field guidance at the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations under construction. (photos accompanied)

- He went around various service facilities in the fourth-stage district of the Hwasong Area nearing their inauguration. (photos accompanied)

- He sent a reply message to the president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

- A flower basket in the name of the organizing committee of the 34th April Spring Friendship Art Festival was laid at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a birthday spread to a centenarian living in Hwadae County of North Hamgyong Province.

- The 34th April Spring Friendship Art Festival opened.

Rodong Sinmun

- Enlarged plenary meetings of Pyongyang municipal and all provincial committees of the Workers' Party of Korea were held to carry through the important tasks set forth in the historic policy speech Comrade Kim Jong Un made at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly.

- Meetings were held to mark the 80th founding anniversaries of the Pyongyang Old People's Home and the Pyongyang Orphanage.

- There took place the 17th enlarged plenary meeting of the Tenth Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League.

Minju Joson

- An article says that standardization is the first important process and a sci-tech guarantee for ensuring the quality of products. -0-