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

- A delegation of Korean commercial workers in Japan laid a flower basket at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

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

- Talks were held between the DPRK minister of Public Security and Russia's minister of Interior.

- Meetings were held at the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex and the Chongjin Steel Plant to mark their 80th founding anniversaries.

- Receptions were given at the DPRK missions abroad to mark the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- Delegations of Korean residents in Japan arrived here.

Rodong Sinmun

- An editorial calls for mobilizing all efforts and means in the campaign to protect the earlier crops from drought damage.

- An article says that continued terrorist threats to the Chinese embassy in Tokyo and the Japanese authorities' act of inciting them are an open violation and challenge to international law.

Minju Joson

- An editorial stresses the need to improve the work of power organs as required by the new development stage of socialist construction.

- An article warns that the reinvasion will be led to the ruin of Japan, not the revival of the great Japanese empire. -0-