Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- The 60th National Schoolchildren's Art Festival opened on the occasion of the greatest auspicious April holiday of the nation.

- State academic degrees and titles were conferred on intellectuals.

- Successes have been made in different units and parts of the country.

- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued a press statement as regards the fact that the diplomatic authorities of the U.S., Japan and the ROK again talked about someone's "complete denuclearization", terming the DPRK's exercise of its sovereign rights a "threat" at the recent NATO foreign ministers' meeting.

Rodong Sinmun

- Tens of thousands of people from across the country made a study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt Paektu during the winter study tour.

- An article says that the U.S. tariff war is evoking a strong rebuke from the international community.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the spirit of uninterrupted revolution peculiar to the Workers' Party of Korea is ushering in a new era of change in which the ideal of the people is brought into full bloom.

- Another article notes that the Japanese authorities' shameless moves to distort history are the unpardonable crimes. -0-