Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Monday:

Editorials and articles are dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's start of the leadership of the revolutionary armed forces.

Successes have been made in various sectors and units of the national economy.

A ceremony for moving into new houses was held in Jiha-ri of Phangyo County, Kangwon Province.

Young people in Nampho Municipality volunteer to work at major theatres for implementing the policy of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Rodong Sinmun

- Officials and primary information workers of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea from across the country made a study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt Paektu and had an oath-taking meeting.

- Officials and members of the women's union throughout the country supported the great construction sites.

- An article denounces the persistent visit to Yasukuni Shrine by the Japanese right-wing forces who deny history.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the DPRK has made effort to strengthening and developing the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) under the banner of the anti-imperialist independence for the past 50 years since it become a member state of the NAM. -0-