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

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from various countries on the occasion of the significant April holiday.

- A Chinese art troupe sent a flower basket to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill here.

- The Eleventh Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League took place.

- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent a congratulatory letter to the participants in the Eleventh SPYL Congress and the youths across the country.

- An evening gala and torchlight procession of youth and students took place to commemorate the Eleventh SPYL Congress.

- The 34th April Spring Friendship Art Festival Closed.

- The National Industrial Art Exhibition for celebrating April 15 closed.

- Editorials mark May Day, the international holiday of working people the world over.

- The DPRK ambassador paid a farewell call on the Ethiopian president.

Rodong Sinmun

- This year, 219 persons won the Model Worker Honor Prize and 113 persons the Model Agricultural Worker Honor Prize.

- A solar power plant was built in Haeju City.

- An article says that the Japanese authorities' move toward a war-capable state is precisely the road of self-destruction.

Minju Joson

- An article says that the youthful dream and hope can be fully realized only in the genuine society. -0-