Pyongyang, March 19 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- New stamps were produced in commemoration of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- Successes are being made in different units and parts of the country.

- Grand choruses were respectively performed by graduates of senior middle schools in North Phyongan Province and Nampho Municipality.

Rodong Sinmun

- A political essay says that the torch of Sangwon is that of the heroic struggle and advance toward comprehensive development in the new era and the flame of loyalty and patriotism inspiring the tens of millions of people to the sacred struggle for implementing the Party's grand plan and intention.

- More than 600 members of the women's union in North Hamgyong Province volunteered for worksites of socialist construction in recent one month.

Minju Joson

- An editorial calls for opening up vigorously a new era of national prosperity by redoubling the political enthusiasm that cemented the supreme power of the DPRK as firm as a rock. -0-