Pyongyang, July 18 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- State academic degrees and titles were awarded to intellectuals.

- Successes are being made in various national economic sectors and units.

- The policy section chief of the Institute for Japan Studies under the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK issued a press statement terming the "2025 defense white paper" of Japan a war scenario for realizing its ambition for reinvasion from A to Z.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article calls upon all Party organizations and officials to be fully prepared to cope with the disastrous weather with a high sense of responsibility they assumed before the Party, the state and the people.

- An article stresses that the precious ideological and spiritual wealth of the victorious wartime generation should be a nutritive substance for the genuine life and struggle of our generation.

Minju Joson

- An article says that thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is bringing earlier the bright future of regional rejuvenation, an ideal society where all the people lead a happy life is sure to be built on our land in the near future.

- An editorial calls for vigorously promoting a comprehensive development of socialist construction by remarkably increasing the role of the scientific front. -0-