Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Monday:

- The Korean Central News Agency released a detailed report on the great vitality of the movement for increased production and economy, which promoted the birth of the Chollima era, and its history of succession and development.

- An article deals with the noble lives of Kwon Yong Byok, Ri Je Sun, Ri Tong Gol and Ji Thae Hwan, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters.

- Graduate students of senior middle schools in Pyongyang met to vow to join the People's Army and had a contest of singing wartime songs in chorus while marching.

- Hundreds of women in North Hamgyong and North Phyongan provinces volunteered to work at theaters for creation and innovation.

- The Department of Press and Information of the DPRK Foreign Ministry issued a press statement as regards the fact that the U.S. is going to stage the large-scale joint military exercises Freedom Shield 2025, an aggressive and confrontational war rehearsal, in collusion with the ROK military gangsters.

- A spokesperson for the Association of Korean Victims of Forcible Drafting and Their Bereaved Families issued a press statement stressing that the unethical atrocities, committed by the Japanese imperialists against the Korean people during the air raids on Tokyo and Osaka by the U.S. forces in the closing days of the Pacific War, will be surely counted. -0-