Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea decided to convene the Twelfth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK.

- A ceremony of launching a newly-built destroyer took place.

- Successes are being made in various fields of national economy.

- An article says that the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine has accelerated the advance of the country in the outpost of the development of the self-supporting economy for 60 years.

- A group of Koreans in Japan for expressing thanks to the homeland on the 70th anniversary of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article discloses that the "politics for the people" touted by the West is the reactionary one seeking only the interests of monopoly capitalists.

Minju Joson

- An article deals with the feats performed by the working class of the preceding generation who attained the grandiose goals of the Six-Year Plan ahead of schedule and glorified the 30th founding anniversary of the Party. -0-