Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a wreath to the bier of Nguyen Phu Trong.

- He sent a wreath to the Vietnamese embassy here.

- He sent gifts to the war veterans across the country.

- Kim Tok Hun, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, met the foreign minister of Belarus.

- Participants in the celebrations of the 71st anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War arrived here.

- Officials of the Party, power and armed forces organs and ministries paid a condolatory visit to the Vietnamese embassy here.

- On the occasion of the V-Day,

State academic degrees and titles were conferred on intellectuals. And there were an oratorical meeting of women's union officials and members and a schoolchildren's story-telling meeting, "Victorious Wartime Generation and I".

- A DPRK player bagged a gold medal at the First International Summer Sports Contest of University Students.

- The foreign minister of Belarus visited various places.

- Meetings took place in different countries to denounce the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK.

Rodong Sinmun

- A ceremony for moving into new houses took place at the Soksa Farm in Pongchon County, South Hwanghae Province.

- A national tangogi cooking contest took place.

- A meeting for reviewing the national technical innovation contest was held to solve the sci-tech problems arising in establishing the floating calcination clinker production line.

Minju Joson

- An article says that President Kim Il Sung's feats for the war victory serve as an eternal cornerstone for the victory and prosperity of Juche Korea.

- The DPRK foreign minister exchanged messages of greeting with her Syrian counterpart.

- She sent a congratulatory message to her Nepalese counterpart.

- An article notes that in the last Fatherland Liberation War, the servicepersons and civilians of the DPRK defeated the U.S. imperialist aggressors by their united efforts. -0-