Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un inspected the training base of the special operation units of the Korean People's Army in the western area. (photos accompanied)

- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), released a press statement ridiculing an event marking the “ROK Army day" held by the puppet ROK as a "boast of strength" by the group of curs or a funeral procession of colonial mercenary army.

- An enlarged plenary meeting of the DPRK Cabinet took place.

- A poem and song presentation of workers and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea took place and the 5th National Sculpture and Craftwork Festival opened to celebrate the 79th founding anniversary of the WPK.

- An inauguration ceremony of the project for building a new ore conveyer system took place at the Komdok Mining Complex.

- A ceremony for moving into new houses was held at the Yangsa Farm in Thosan County, North Hwanghae Province.

- An event took place to mark the Foundation Day of Korea.

- The "Forum of Our Nation-2024" of the Koreans in Japan took place in Japan.

Roodng Sinmun

- Students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School conducted motivation activities in the theatres for rehabilitating the flood-hit areas of North Phyongan Province.

- An article says that the "hideous unethical criminal state" is a name-tag peculiar to Japan.

Minju Joson

- An article stresses the need to gather and cultivate medicinal herbs in the right time and in a qualitative way. -0-