Pyongyang, February 4 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Saturday:

- The Korean Friendship Association sent a floral basket to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

- Choe Ryong Hae, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, inspected various units in Nampho City.

- A seminar of social scientists took place to deeply study and grasp the undying feats of the peerlessly great men for the founding and development of the KPA.

- Successes were made in various fields of the national economy.

- Damage by COVID-19 is still unabated worldwide.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article says that the speed of the KPA's step is precisely the speed of advance of the Korean revolution.

- Another article says that in the world there are no such people as the DPRK people benefited from the army.

Minju Joson

- An editorial stresses the need for key industrial sectors to carry out their national economic plans for this year unconditionally, thoroughly and correctly. -0-