Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Tuesday:

- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Monday issued a press statement "Constant deployment of U.S. strategic assets highlights urgency of the DPRK to bolster up its self-defensive nuclear war deterrent".

- Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui met with a delegation of the Lao Foreign Ministry.

- Successes have been made in different national economic sectors and units.

- The Lao foreign ministry delegation visited various places.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article calls upon all the officials to always strain their ears to the people's voices and make it their habit to find work in the people's inconvenience and desire.

- Officials of the Central Committee of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League conducted motivation activities in the construction site of a large greenhouse farm.

- Officials and primary officials of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea from across the country made a study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt Paektu

Minju Joson

- An editorial stresses the need for the scientists to bring about successful results that ensure the victory of this year's struggle and lead it to a new stage of development.

- An article discloses the thrice-cursed crimes committed by the Japanese imperialists who illegally occupied Korea in the last century and cooked up and promulgated all sorts of fascist laws to brutally suppress and kill the Korean people. -0-