Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in Rodong Sinmun, a leading newspaper of the DPRK, on Monday:

- The respected Marshal Kim Jong Un received letters from the members of congratulatory groups of the Korean Youth League in Japan and the Association of Young Korean Nationals in China.

- An editorial calls for making a breakthrough in attaining the goal of grain production this year by concentrating all efforts on rice-transplanting and concluding it in right time.

- An article says that various farms are transplanting rice seedlings in high spirits.

- The participants in the Ninth Congress of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea conducted the political and cultural work.

- Young people in South Hamgyong Province volunteered to work at major worksites of socialist construction.

- Successes are being made in various units and regions.

- An article says that Israel's ever-growing ambition for territorial expansion is arousing apprehension and discontent of the international community. -0-