Pyongyang, January 30 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- Officials, working people, service personnel and school youth and children laid floral baskets at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il across the country on the lunar New Year's Day.

- A meeting took place to mark the 10th anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's field guidance at the Wonsan Leather Shoes Factory.

- Regional-industry factories were inaugurated in Kosan County of Kangwon Province. (photos accompanied)

- An art performance in celebration of the lunar New Year's Day was given. (photos accompanied)

- The lunar New Year's Day was significantly celebrated across the country.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article says that however desperately the bourgeois mouthpieces advertise the "advantages of liberal democracy", they can never cover up its anti-popular and reactionary nature.

Minju Joson

- An article deals with the brilliant culture and tradition of the nation being brought into full bloom under the guidance of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. -0-