Pyongyang, November 20 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un gave field guidance at the regional-industry factories under construction in Songchon County. (photos accompanied)

- An art troupe of Korean schoolchildren in Japan visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill to pay tribute to them.

- The 11th meeting of the DPRK-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology was held here.

- The 16th Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair opened.

- An art troupe of Korean schoolchildren in Japan arrived here.

- The Russian government delegation visited the Tower of the Juche Idea and laid a wreath at the Liberation Tower.

Rodong Sinmun

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

- Articles introduce the DPRK women footballers who won the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup to demonstrate the prestige of the country.

Minju Joson

- An article marks the publication anniversary of the letter sent by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to the participants in the Fifth Conference of Frontrunners in the Three Revolutions on November 18, 2021.

- An article says that the Ulsa Five-point Treaty cooked up by Japan in 1905 was an illegal and invalid fabrication aimed at colonizing Korea from A to Z. -0-