Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Monday:

- An article tells about the fact that President Kim Il Sung energetically led the work to establish the Central Party School, a "pedigree farm" for training the backbone of the Workers' Party of Korea, after the liberation of the country.

- There took place a grand short course of Korean Children's Union instructors from schools across the country.

- The daily says that cities and counties are the main theaters for implementing the Party's policy on improving the people's standard of living.

- University graduates in South Hwanghae Province and young people in Rason Municipality volunteered for workplaces called by the Party.

- A DPRK player came first at the 20th Asian Marathon Championships, setting a new record of the championships.

- A DPRK player bagged a gold medal in the 57kg category of free-style wrestling at the 2025 Asian Wrestling Championship.

- The Sangwon Cement Complex over-fulfilled its first quarterly national economic plan ahead of schedule and produced tens of thousands more tons of cement than the same period of last year. -0-