Pyongyang, December 8 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- Mosaics depicting the images of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il were unveiled at different units of Jagang Province.

- A meeting was held at the DPRK embassy in Hanoi to mark the 65th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's official visit to Vietnam.

- A monument to the undying revolutionary footprints left by the peerlessly great men in Anju City was erected in Anju City, South Phyongan Province.

- The participants in the 5th National Conference of Mothers tour Pyongyang.

- DPRK players proved successful in the 2023 IWF Grand Prix.

- KCNA commentary denounces Japan for its continuous military madness getting ever more frantic at the end of this year.

- The Vietnamese embassy officials here visited the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill.

Rodong Sinmun

- Nearly 120 000 members of more than 2 400 organizations have climbed Mt Paektu, following the course of horseback march made by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

- An article says that the U.S. is behind the massacre of civilians in Gaza Strip.

Minju Joson

- An editorial calls upon the deputies to become genuine representatives and true servants of the people, who strive to defend and realize the rights and interests and demands of the people.

- An article discloses the fact that the Japanese imperialists had brutally suppressed the Korean people through various police repressive mechanisms in the last century. -0-