Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Monday:

- The respected Marshal Kim Jong Un received a letter of thanks from the chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.

- Premier Pak Thae Song inspected various sectors of South and North Hamgyong provinces.

- Successes have been made in different economic units.

- An article says that a large contingent of rural revolutionaries in the new era who will shoulder the future of the socialist countryside, patriotic peasants who are genuine masters responsible for the country's farming, is steadily growing with each passing day.

- The chief of the External Policy Office of the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a press statement warning that illegal anti-DPRK sanctions-breeding moves would precipitate the DPRK's behavioral counteraction to defend its sovereign rights.

- Members of the Russian embassy here placed wreaths at liberation towers and cemeteries of the fallen fighters of the Soviet Army.

- Articles say that the bourgeois parliamentary system and multi-party system are by no means democratic politics and that the U.S. missile defense system is aimed at its rivals in the Asia-Pacific region. -0-