Pyongyang, January 10 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- Sectors directly related to the people's living intensify innovative operation to bring about a substantial change in the improvement of people's living standards.

- Successes have been made in every province and different economic sectors.

- The first-term winter camping of schoolchildren started at the Songdowon International Children's Camp.

- A reception was given for the art troupe of Korean schoolchildren in Japan.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article calls upon the members of the Workers' Party of Korea to take the lead in the ongoing struggle for significantly greeting the 80th founding anniversary of the glorious Party.

- Party organizations at all levels have intensified the operation to implement the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee.

- The sports sector explores practical proposals for putting the country's sports on a higher stage of development.

Minju Joson

- An article calls for confidently waging a bolder struggle for great victory and glory in 2025.

- A political essay says that the invariable will to defend the national sovereignty and prestige and courage to keep the national dignity to the last are the mettle of the DPRK people. -0-