Pyongyang, October 23 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un inspected strategic missile bases. (photos accompanied)

- He sent a congratulatory message to the president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

- A delegation and a home-visiting group of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill to pay tribute to them.

- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued a press statement in denunciation of the reckless infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK by the ROK military gangsters.

- Successes have been made in different economic sectors.

- A delegation and a visiting group of Chongryon and a delegation of the Vietnam Foreign Ministry arrived here.

Rodong Sinmun

- An editorial calls upon the provincial, city and county committees of the WPK to fulfill their responsibility and role in implementing the Party's policy on regional development.

Minju Joson

- An article deals with the basic requirements to be maintained in construction. -0-