Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The 34th Plenary Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK took place.

- The SPA Standing Committee decided to convene a session of the SPA of the DPRK.

- An official notice on convening a session of the DPRK SPA was issued.

- Youth and students from across the country on a study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt Paektu reached the top of Mt Paektu, sacred mountain of revolution.

- Successes have been made in different economic sectors and units and parts of the country.

- Remodeled Rason Secondary School No. 1 was inaugurated.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article says that Chairman Kim Jong Il, the peerless patriot and the great father of the people, paved the avenue toward prosperity by overcoming ordeals in the spirit of blizzards of Paektu.

- Another article notes that capitalism is on the verge of collapse.

Minju Joson

- A total of over 740 000 people have spent their holiday at the Yangdok Hot Spring Resort for the past five years.

- An article stresses that the trend of the times oriented to independence, the aspiration and desire of mankind, can never be stemmed. -0-