Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

All the people across the DPRK honored the memory of President Kim Il Sung, founding father of the dignified socialist state, in humble reverence.

Officials, working people, service personnel, youth and students laid flower baskets at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in different parts of the country on the occasion of the greatest national memorial day.

The president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria sent a flower basket to the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

Members of the Vietnamese and Nicaraguan embassies here laid flower baskets at the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

Seminars on the exploits of Kim Il Sung took place in different countries.

Successes are being achieved in different parts of the country and at several economic sectors.

DPRK players returned home after taking part in international games.

Rodong Sinmun

An article underscores the need to make all the people have an unshakable faith in the revolutionary ideas of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The Cabinet and economic guidance organs are actively guiding the economic work to successfully attain the goals of the five-year plan.

The Pukchang Area Youth Coal-mining Complex turns out as one with a higher goal to greet the 80th founding anniversary of the Party after producing at least 14 600 tons of more coal in the first half of the year.

Another article says that many developing countries reject the domination and interference by the West and aspire after their development by their own efforts.

Minju Joson

- An article calls for accelerating the advance of the revolution with the revolutionary spirit of self-sustenance and indomitable courage of advance under the guidance of the great Party. -0-