Pyongyang, November 7 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspaper of the DPRK on Thursday:

- The DPRK foreign minister returned home after paying an official visit to the Russian Federation.

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

- A national wheat flour foods show is going on.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article says that the successful implementation of the programme for the rural revolution in the new era is the supreme task to be certainly carried out by the present generation.

- Another article notes that the imperialists seek in confrontation and war a way out of the present economic crisis getting worse day by day.

- The daily carries an article saying that it is more urgent than ever before to protect the global ecological environment at present when the existence and development of mankind are threatened by the destruction of ecological environment due to global warming.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the strong might of guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea is ushering in a new era of epochal changes on this land. -0-