Pyongyang, June 27 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun of the DPRK on Friday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a birthday spread to a centenarian living in Pyongyang.

- An editorial calls for making more courageous, effective and intensive efforts for the successful completion of the five-year plan.

- Successes are being made in various fields and units of the national economy.

- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK issued decrees on awarding the "Lathe No.26" Model Machine Prize and the title of Socialist Patriotic Forest to exemplary units.

- The work to cope with the disastrous abnormal weather is intensified across the country.

- The DPRK embassy in Moscow hosted a reception to mark the first anniversary of the historic DPRK-Russia Pyongyang summit and the conclusion of the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership.

- A solidarity meeting took place in the Czech Republic on the occasion of the June 25-July 27 month of anti-U.S. joint struggle. -0-