Pyongyang, August 13 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had a phone conversation with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation. (A photo accompanied)

- Articles laud the exploits performed by President Kim Il Sung in national liberation.

- On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation

Organization of Koreans in China and Koreans in China sent floral baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill here

A stamp exhibition opened and photo exhibitions are being held in provinces (municipalities) of the DPRK

Members of the diplomatic corps here visited the Korean Revolution Museum

- Students of the revolutionary schools spent enjoyable days in the Wonsan Kalma coastal tourist area.

- The National Exhibition of Sci-tech Achievements in the Field of Furniture and Finishing Building Materials-2025 closed.

- A national children's Taekwon-Do championship was held.

- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave an answer to a question raised by KCNA as regards the fact that days ago, Israel openly revealed its attempt to completely occupy the Gaza Strip of Palestine.

- A delegation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation is to visit the DPRK.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article stresses that the revolutionary traditions of Paektu are a firm cornerstone which guarantees the ever-victorious history and eternal youth of Juche Korea.

- Another article says that the struggle for putting the national economy on a Juche basis and realizing the domestic production is an ideological confrontation between self-respect and dependence.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the life of the revolutionary forerunners who pioneered the history of eternal resistance is shining forever under the care of Kim Jong Un. -0-