Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a congratulatory message to the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam who is president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

- Successes are being made in various economic sectors and units.

Rodong Sinmun

- Enlarged plenary meetings of the Party committees of ministries and national agencies were held to carry out the important tasks set forth in the historic policy speech the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly.

- An article says that single-minded unity is the absolute strength of the DPRK.

- A joint meeting and a commemorative reception of political parties and organizations in the Nordic region took place in Sweden to mark the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- Another article notes that submission to the U.S. is Japan's habitual mode of existence.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the Workers' Party of Korea puts forward the coal miners as the core of the country that performs the most valuable feats. -0-