Pyongyang, August 14 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

A home-visiting group of Koreans in Japan visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill to pay tribute to them.

Articles deal with the exploits President Kim Il Sung performed for the liberation of the country.

Successes were made in different sectors of the national economy.

Youth and students from across the country made a study tour of revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt Paektu.

University students across the country carried out social and political activities in Samjiyon County now under remodeling.

Rodong Sinmun

President Kim Il Sung released many works illuminating the most scientific line, strategy and tactics for the Korean revolution during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

A number of revolutionary songs were created and disseminated during the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle.

Officials and machinists in the field of agriculture, who have been distinguished themselves in the movement to create model lathes following the example of Lathe No. 26, visited Pyongyang and had an experience-sharing meeting.

An article deals with the source of the worsening situation in Venezuela and the true intent sought by the U.S. through "support" in this country.

Minju Joson

An article discloses the intentional acts of the south Korean authorities aiming at sharpening tension on the Korean peninsula.

Another article says that Asia emerges as the center of the world. -0-