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

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a reply message from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

- Premier Pak Thae Song inspected various sectors of the national economy.

- Regional-industry factories were inaugurated in Unsan County of North Phyongan Province.

- Editorials and articles are dedicated to the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army.

- A meeting to hear impressions of the reminiscences on virtues of the peerlessly great men was held by agricultural workers and members of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea to mark the 77th founding anniversary of the KPA.

- Many officials, working people, youth and students visit the North Phyongan Provincial Revolutionary Museum day by day.

- The 38th Science and Technology Festival of Kim Chaek University of Technology took place.

- A delegation of Kim Chaek University of Technology returned home after visiting Russia.

- KCNA commentary ridiculed the mouthpieces of the NATO and the EU which made senseless words, peeping into the Korean peninsula.

Rodong Sinmun

- The paper carries the voices of the officials and working people across the country who were excited by the speech made by Kim Jong Un at a groundbreaking ceremony of a hospital and leisure complex in Kangdong County for the Regional Development 20×10 Policy.

- An article carries the people's sincerity for the officers and men of the 124th Regiments of the KPA wholeft for new construction sites for the people's happiness.

- The first-stage waterproofing project was completed and the projects for expanding dikes and projects forpiling up earth and building retaining walls are accelerated at various sites for reclaiming tidelands.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the anti-imperialist struggle is the best way for realizing peace. -0-