Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Monday:

- An editorial calls upon all the people to usher in a new era of prosperity with the same spirit and mettle as was displayed in pioneering the era of comprehensive development.

- The participants in the Eleventh Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League visited the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations.

- An article deals with the feats performed by officers and men of the 124th regiments of the Korean People's Army in the third-year struggle for implementing the regional development policy in the new era.

- The first-term camping started at the Kyongsong Children's Camp.

- Successes are being made in different parts of the country.

- Another article says that Japan's evolution into a war state and war merchant will only repeat the history of the shameful misfortune of the old "great Japanese empire". -0-