Pyongyang, September 5 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a floral basket from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

- He received a floral basket from the president of the State of Palestine.

- Successes have been made in different economic sectors and units.

- A ceremony for moving into new houses took place at the Ryongsin Farm in Hamhung City, South Hamgyong Province.

- More than 200 graduates from universities of education and teachers training colleges volunteered to do work at branch schools on islands and schools in mountainous and rural areas this year.

- A delegation of the DPRK Olympic Committee left here to take part in the 44th General Assembly of the Olympic Council of Asia.

Rodong Sinmun

- An editorial calls for surmounting difficulties with confidence in sure victory.

- Regiments of Party Members mobilized in the rehabilitation of the flood-hit areas of Jagang Province completed the excavations of foundations of houses and their ground concrete tamping just for three days and are pushing forward with the framework projects at a full-scale stage.

- A national symposium in the field of cosmetics industry took place.

- An article terms the capitalist society an anti-popular one in which inequality and antagonism and enmity have gone to extremes.

- Another article discloses the militarist moves of the Japanese bellicose forces which have reached an extremely reckless phase.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the DPRK is a genuine people's country in which the people-first idea is thoroughly embodied. -0-