Pyongyang, December 15 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Monday:

- Successes have been made in different economic sectors and units and areas.

- Ceremonies of moving into new houses took place at Majon and Naeho farms in Hamhung City and the Paeksang Farm in Pujon County, South Hamgyong Province.

- South Phyongan Province has modernized the city and county Koryo medicine pharmaceutical factories.

- An editorial calls for greeting the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea with victory and glory by further putting spurs to the daring and offensive fighting spirit.

- An article says that the extreme socio-political contradiction of capitalist society where inequality and privilege are rampant can never be removed. -0-