Pyongyang, June 21 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Friday:

- The European Regional Committee for Friendship with the Korean People sent a floral basket to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

- Successes have been made in different sectors of the national economy.

- The 76th meeting of the National Sports Guidance Committee took place.

- Workers and trade union members met to pledge revenge and officials and members of the women's union met with a woman who witnessed the brutal murder to mark June 25, the day of struggle against U.S. imperialism

- Ceremonies for moving into new houses took place at the Phyongmu Farm and the Kumdong Unjong tea cultivation ground in Kangryong County, South Hwanghae Province.

- There were ceremonies for inaugurating the Phyongsong Schoolchildren's Footwear Factory and a lodging quarter of sportspersons in the sports village of South Phyongan Province.

- A delegation of the DPRK Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports left here for Russia.

- The participants in the memorial service for Choe Hong Hui, former president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation, on the 22nd anniversary of his death, left here.

- An article says that no matter how hard the U.S. imperialists may employ every possible form of tactics, they can never cover up their true colors as provocateurs of the Korean War.

- Another article says that Japan's discharge of nuclear-polluted water into sea is a hideous crime seriously threatening all countries, regions and mankind in the world. -0-