Pyongyang, August 7 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- A departure ceremony of the Paektusan Hero Youth Shock Brigade to be dispatched to the rehabilitation campaign areas in North Phyongan Province took place under the presence of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un. (photos accompanied)

- Kim Jong Un received a reply message from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

- Visual motivation aids calling upon all the people to the rehabilitation projects were displayed across the country.

- A 2024 national exhibition of sci-tech successes in the field of furniture and finishing building materials opened.

- An article says that the waters of the Red Sea is becoming a "maze" for the U.S. and Western armed interventionists.

Rodong Sinmun

- Articles deal with the combatants of the Pyongyang Municipal Regiment of Party Members leaving for the rehabilitation projects and citizens of the capital city seeing off them.

- There was a national sci-tech presentation of finishing building materials.

- An article deals with the efforts of developing countries for unity and cooperation.

Minju Joson

- Articles tell about the measures taken by various sectors to thoroughly prevent damage from disastrous abnormal weather. -0-