Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- Meetings took place at different units to mark the 10th anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's field guidance.

- New houses were built in rural villages in North and South Phyongan, South Hwanghae and Ryanggang provinces and Kaesong Municipality.

- One hundred young people in North Hamgyong Province formed the Kil Yong Jo youth death-defying corps and turned out in the high-speed tunneling movement.

- Innovative successes are being made in various sectors of the national economy.

- A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of China called for not turning the Pacific into a "storm ocean".

- The World Health Organization informed of the infection state by COVID-19.

Rodong Sinmun

- The number of frontrunners in noble traits has rapidly grown among young people since the Second National Meeting of Young Frontrunners in Noble Traits.

Minju Joson

- An article praises President Kim Il Sung as a brilliant military strategist who led the Fatherland Liberation War to victory.

- Another article says that the most valuable life of a revolutionary lies in remaining boundlessly faithful to the cause of the leader. -0-