Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met a delegation of the Federation Council of Russia.

- Successes have been made in different sectors of the national economy.

- The delegation of the Federation Council of Russia visited different places.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article calls for repaying the great benevolence of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un with sincere sweat, conscience and patriotic practice.

- Another article says that the U.S. is the heinous murderer fostering a new grand disaster in the Gaza Strip as it is instigating Israel not to hesitate to use such WMDs as nuclear weapons.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the DPRK led by the respected General Secretary is the country for the people, the world of the people without parallel.

- The DPRK foreign minister sent a message of sympathy to the deputy foreign minister for political affairs of Iran.-0-