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

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un met with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on a state visit to the DPRK. (photos accompanied)

- Articles mark the 60th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- A ceremony for moving into new houses took place at the Ryongyong Farm in Sakju County, North Phyongan Province.

- A meeting took place to mark the Day of Persons with Disabilities.

- The participants in the memorial service for Choe Hong Hui, former president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation, on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of his demise visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung, and other places.

- Articles introduce Russia attaining the goal of building a powerful state.

Rodong Sinmun

- The Musan Mining Complex carried out the blasting of 500 000 cubic meters of earth to provide a guarantee for increasing iron ore.

- A factory producing multi-nutrients for rice seedbeds has been inaugurated in Phyongsong City of South Phyongan Province with due ceremony.

- Kim Jong Un sent a birthday spread to a woman centenarian living in Phangyo County, Kangwon Province.

Minju Joson

- The European Regional Committee for Friendship with the Korean People sent a floral basket to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

- An article says that the DPRK-Russia friendly relations have deep and strong roots and are the invincible relations of comrade-in-arms which have been firmly consolidated in all storms of history. -0-