Pyongyang, April 23 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- The first damming project was successfully finished in the reclamation site of the Haebang Tideland.

-Successes have been made in different parts and various sectors.

- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK issued decrees on conferring the red flags of the three revolutions on exemplary units and the honored red flags on exemplary schools.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article says that trust and confidence in one's own strength are more precious spiritual assets than material wealth.

- Members of the delegation of the United Russian Youth Guards lauded the DPRK as an invincible country building a bright future.

- An article says that lurking behind Japan's steady increase in military expenditure is its reckless ambition for turning itself into a military giant.

- Young people in North Hwanghae Province volunteered to work at theaters for socialist construction.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the revolutionary spirit of Mt Paektu created by the anti-Japanese forerunners serves as an eternal treasure guaranteeing the victory of the Korean revolution.

- The premier of the Cabinet sent a congratulatory message to the prime minister of Serbia.

- The foreign minister of the DPRK exchanged greetings with the minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Zimbabwe on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Zimbabwe. -0-