Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- On the occasion of the 79th anniversary of Korea's liberation

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a floral basket from members of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation.

Organizations of Koreans in China, foreign figures and Koreans in China sent floral baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman

Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

Editorials deal with the exploits the President performed for national liberation, and articles recollect the pleasure and emotion of the Korean people who greeted the national liberation.

Workers and members of the trade unions had an oratorical meeting and youth and students met to cherish the faith of an anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter, the hero of the TV stage "Shout of Faith".

The charge d'affaires ad interim of the Russian embassy here hosted a reception.

The summer aesthetic symposium in the field of land and environment protection-2024 was held.

Rodong Sinmun

- The world community praises the exploits of the President for Korea’s liberation.

- There took place the 11th Exhibition of Teaching Aids in the Field of Art Education.

- An article says that Japanese militarism is not the specter of the past.

Minju Joson

- An article stresses that the Japanese imperialists can never evade the responsibility for their past crimes. -0-