Pyongyang, May 9 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Saturday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a message of greeting to the president of the Russian Federation.

- The participants in the Ninth Congress of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea laid a flower basket at the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

- Events took place in Russia to celebrate the 114th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

- The 15th Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea decided to convene the Eighth Congress of the SWUK.

- The participants in the Ninth Congress of the GFTUK arrived here.

- The DPRK team advanced into the quarterfinals of 2026 AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup.

- A delegation of the Hydro-Meteorological and Environmental Monitoring Bureau of the Russian Federation left here for home.

Rodong Sinmun

- The participants in the Eleventh Congress of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League are conducting energetic political work and young people across the country are active in the vanguard of making innovations.

- An article warns that Japan desperately resorting to arms buildup for turning itself into a military power and realizing its ambition for overseas expansion should not forget the lesson from its shameful defeat.

Minju Joson

- An editorial calls for establishing the climate of thoroughly implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea by dint of political work. -0-