Pyongyang, October 1 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Tuesday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un met the players and coaches who won the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to congratulate and encourage them. (photos accompanied)

- Kim Jong Un sent a message of greeting to the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China.

- Achievements are being made in different sectors of the national economy.

- The 2024 Autumn Sports Contest of Aged People and Amateurs took place.

- The 18th National Machine Design Festival closed.

- A spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK gave the answer to a question raised by KCNA as regards the fact that Israel's recent large-scale military attack and terrorist acts against Lebanon caused huge casualties.

Rodong Simun

- An editorial calls upon all sectors and units to further intensify the offensive spirit and glorify this year as a year of proud victory in the history of development of our state.

- A ceremony for moving into new houses took place at the Hyongsan Vegetable Farm in Hyongjesan District, Pyongyang Municipality.

- An article says that the U.S. anachronistic wild dream of "unipolar globalization" will surely precipitate its doom.

Minju Joson

- An article mark International Day of Older Persons. -0-