Pyongyang, June 9 (KCNA) -- Asahi Shimbun of late ran a conspiratorial article defaming the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and malignantly twisting its reality.

Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Vivian Balakrishnan, foreign minister of Singapore, arrived here on Thursday. -0-

Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Talks were held between the foreign ministers of the DPRK and Singapore at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Thursday.

Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Song Chang Sik was appointed as DPRK ambassador to Algeria, according to a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK. -0-

Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- The delegates to the celebrations of the 72nd founding anniversary of the Korean Children's Union (KCU) visited Mangyongdae, the birthplace of President Kim Il Sung.

Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Staff members of the Chinese embassy here did friendship labor at the DPRK-China Friendship Thaekam Co-op Farm in Sunan District of Pyongyang, on Thursday.

Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Xinhua news of China carried an article "Fresh development of the DPRK's economy witnessed in Wonsan" written by its reporter who had visited the DPRK.