Pyongyang, February 18 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Tuesday:

- Articles carry the voices of officials and working people across the country who were excited by the speech made by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un at the ground-breaking ceremony for the fourth-stage project to build 10 000 flats in the Hwasong area.

- Seminars on the exploits of Chairman Kim Jong Il took place in different countries.

- Koreans in Japan significantly celebrated the February holiday.

- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a press statement said that the anachronistic and futile attempt to challenge the inviolable sovereignty and the prestige of the DPRK will entail self-destructive results.

- An article deals with the socialist countryside is transforming with the ceremonies of moving into new houses.

- Students of Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School conducted motivational activities for increased production at the East Pyongyang Thermal Power Plant.

- A delegation of the Bureau for Affairs with Diplomatic Corps left here for Russia. -0-