Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspaper of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- A home-visiting group of students in their final year at Korean University of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill to pay tribute to them.

- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, released a press statement titled "An abnormal object appeared at Pusan Port: U.S. strategic assets would not find their resting place in the Korean peninsula."

- A spokesperson for the DPRK Foreign Ministry released a press statement "The signboard of 'maintaining peace and stability' can never be a lever for the U.S. to justify its policy of inter-camp confrontation".

- Achievements have been made in various economic sectors and units.

- Ceremonies for moving into new houses took place at Sinjidong and Sinsong farms in Hoechang County, South Phyongan Province.

- Youth and students met with meritorious persons of socialist patriotism.

- A home-visiting group of students in their final year at Korean University of Chongryon arrived here.

Rodong Sinmun

- An editorial calls upon the leading economic officials to do work in a more bold and innovative way.

- The director of the International Department of the C.C., WPK met with the new Lao ambassador to the DPRK.

- The 18th National Machine Design Festival opened.

Minju Joson

- An article says that it is an essential demand for the officials to strengthen revolutionary self-cultivation and training.

- The daily introduces Algeria on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and Algeria.

- Another article discloses the Japanese imperialists' heinous unethical crimes as regards the fact that 114 years have passed since they cooked up the government-general to further cement their colonial rule over Korea. -0-