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

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

- Articles say that the serious energy crisis in Europe is the result of kowtowing to the U.S.

Rodong Sinmun

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a message of greeting from the emir of the State of Kuwait.

- Enlarged plenary meetings of Pyongyang municipal and provincial committees of the Workers' Party of Korea took place to implement the decisions of the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth WPK Central Committee.

- An article says that the news of continued inauguration ceremonies of regional-industry factories in the new year is encouraging the people across the country.

Minju Joson

- Premier Pak Thae Song received a congratulatory message from the prime minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

- An article says that the capitalist society is an anti-popular society where pauperization and reactionary nature in mental and cultural life have reached the extremes. -0-