Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- A ceremony took place to welcome Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of the Republic of Belarus. (photos accompanied)

- The Belarusian president laid a wreath at the Liberation Tower. (photos accompanied)

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a birthday spread to a centenarian in Sinuiju City of North Phyongan Province.

- The Belarusian president visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun.

- The Belarusian president arrived here.

Rodong Sinmun

- Kim Jong Un received a reply message from the general secretary of the C.C., Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

- He received a congratulatory message from the co-presidents of the Republic of Nicaragua.

- He received flower baskets from the co-presidents of Nicaragua and a director of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation.

- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK issued a decree on awarding Three-Revolution Red Flag to exemplary units.

- The SPA Standing Committee issued a decree on awarding Honored Red Flag to exemplary schools.

- A meeting was held to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the Publication Guidance Bureau.

- An article says that the Hwasong area becomes enlivened with the fourth house-moving.

- An international scientific symposium on the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea took place in Russia.

- Another article stresses that the worsening political instability is the inevitable result of Western-style democracy.

Minju Joson

- An article discloses a real intention of Japan that is rushing headlong into militarization, throwing away even the mask of deceptive "pacifist state" while watching for a chance of new war of aggression. -0-