Pyongyang, June 2 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Monday:

- Meetings were held to mark the tenth anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's field guidance at Wonsan Baby Home and Orphanage.

- Pak Thae Song, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made a field survey of various sectors.

- Political and cultural activities were conducted on the occasion of the first anniversary of the inauguration and opening of the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK issued a decree on awarding the Three-Revolution Red Flag to exemplary units.

- International Children's Day was celebrated in different parts of the country.

- Children with disabilities held a meeting to mark the June 1 International Children's Day.

- A joint friendship gathering took place to mark the 75th anniversary of the June 1 International Children's Day.

- Service persons of the 124th Regiments of the Korean People's Army dispatched to different parts of the country finished in the main the framework projects of the city and county regional-industry factories in the new year.

- As of June 1, the rice-transplanting has been fulfilled over 85 percent across the country.

- Universities and colleges across the country planted more than 300 000 trees of good species in the forest areas under their charge this year.

- The chief of the External Policy Office of the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK in a press statement stresses that the DPRK's efforts to defend the dignity and interests of the state will not be bound by anyone's prejudiced viewpoint and malicious criticism.

- An article notes that the absolute majority of the working masses in the capitalist society are suffering from misfortune and pain, deprived of even the elementary right to existence. -0-