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

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a message of greeting to the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) who is president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR).

- He sent a floral basket to the general secretary of the LPRP Central Committee who is president of the LPDR.

- A meeting of the National Emergency Response Committee was held.

- A Permanent Commission session of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK took place.

- Successes were made in various economic sectors.

- The damage by COVID-19 is unabated worldwide.

Rodong Sinmun

- Provincial, city and county Party organizations have boosted the enthusiasm for mass movement through powerful organizational and political work.

- An article says that the confidence in the future is doubled through innovative entities.

- Another article notes that inevitable is the ruin of capitalism in which the rotten bourgeois ideology and culture are rampant.

Minju Joson

- An article deals with the fact that the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un has put forward the young people as masters of the era and performers of feats.

- An article discloses the heinous atrocities committed by the Japanese imperialists who plundered the land of Korea in the last century.

- An article is dedicated to World Water Day. -0-