Pyongyang, January 20 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun of the DPRK on Monday:

- An article says that all officials should thoroughly embody the Party's intention to let the whole Party go among the masses so that a vigorous drive for increased production and economy is launched at every worksite to implement the decisions of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- Successes have been made in different economic sectors.

- The paper carries what officials and people in Hamju County of South Hamgyong Province have said after holding an inauguration ceremony of regional-industry factories with splendor.

- It runs the first articles contributed to the forum of the Party's paper by the workers of the Sangwon Cement Complex who are holding aloft the torch of miraculous increased production.

- Articles call for becoming talents required by the new era of comprehensive national prosperity.

- An article notes that the international political situation in 2024 proves that global independence is the main trend of the present era. -0-