Pyongyang, October 5 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- Successes were made in various economic sectors.

- Harvesting and threshing are brisk at farms across the country.

- The damage by COVID-19 is unabated worldwide.

Rodong Sinmun

- An editorial calls for more thoroughly applying the people-first principle to the overall work of the party and the state.

- An article tells about the distinguished leadership of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un who has steadily developed the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) into the glorious Kimilsungist-Kimjongilist party.

Minju Joson

- An editorial calls for thoroughly embodying the WPK's political idea of the people-first principle in the general legal affairs.

- An article is dedicated to World Day of Teachers. -0-