Pyongyang, October 14 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Monday:

- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Sunday released a press statement titled "Reckless challenge hysteria will hasten the miserable end of the ROK".

- A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of National Defence issued a press statement as regards the fact that the ROK has persisted in letting out lame excuses and impudent rubbish after it perpetrated a grave provocation of violating the sovereignty of the DPRK.

- A spokesman for the DPRK Ministry of National Defence announced that the General Staff of the Korean People's Army issued an order to the combined artillery units along the border and the units taking on an important firepower task to get fully ready to open fire.

- An article and a political essay say that the whole country is seething with the strong will for thousand-fold retaliation after receiving the crucial statement of the DPRK Foreign Ministry.

- A session of Permanent Commission of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK took place.

- Successes have been made in different sectors of the national economy.

- The DPRK won at the 2024 Asian Table Tennis Championships.

- A meeting for account settlement and income distribution took place at the Toksong Farm in Anak County of South Hwanghae Province which has exceeded the peak-year level.

- The 2024 Inter-Provincial Mass Sports Contest in Celebration of the 75th Day of Physical Culture opened.

- The General Association of Koreans in China held events to celebrate the 79th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- An international security analyst's article warned that the Japan's "reinvasion ship" will be doomed to sinking.

- The 110th candlelight rally and demonstration for impeachment of puppet Yoon Suk Yeol were staged in the puppet ROK.

Rodong Sinmun

- Women's union organizations at all levels have conducted artistic motivation team activities at major economic theaters.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the peoples of the DPRK and Russia greeted the 76th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations at a historic time when the DPRK-Russia friendly relations entered the road of fresh overall development. -0-