Pyongyang, September 6 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received floral baskets and congratulatory letters from the diplomatic corps and the military attaches corps here.

- A congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan for celebrating the 76th DPRK birthday visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill to pay tribute to them.

- In celebration of the 76th DPRK birthday,

A national fine art exhibition opened here. And meetings were held by working people's organizations and an oratorical meeting of university students on the theme of "Patriotism and young students" took place.

- A congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan for celebrating the 76th DPRK birthday arrived here.

- People from flood-hit areas visited the Korean Revolution Museum and the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum.

- A ceremony for moving into new houses was held at the Songhang Farm in Kyonghung County of North Hamgyong Province.

- Successes have been made in different economic sectors and units.

- The chief of the Public Information Office of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK issued a press statement in denunciation of the ceaseless provocative joint military drills staged by the U.S. and the ROK to maximize the military tensions in the region of the Korean peninsula.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article calls for keeping pace with the great patriotic devotion of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

- A stamp exhibition for celebrating the 76th birthday of the DPRK began.

- An article discloses the impudent moves of the Japanese reactionaries getting evermore undisguised in denying the past crimes.

Minju Joson

- A political essay says that Kim Jong Un's embrace is that of the motherland, eternal home for the people.

- An editorial calls for concentrating all efforts on autumn harvesting to attain this year's grain production goal without fail. -0-