Pyongyang, May 14 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- Kim Song Nam, secretary of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea and director of its International Department, met the special envoy of the general secretary of the C.C., Communist Party of Vietnam who is president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

- The DPRK foreign minister had talks with her Vietnamese counterpart.

- The participants in the Ninth Congress of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea visited the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats at the Overseas Military Operations.

- There took place the 2026 spring aesthetic symposium in the urban management sector and the 18th Symposium on Architectural Aesthetics.

Rodong Sinmun

- The 61st National Schoolchildren Art Festival came to an end.

- There took place the 2026 national paduk contest in the field of education.

- An article discloses that "liberal democracy" in capitalist society is a hotbed of extreme exploitation of capital and inequality.

- Another article says that if Japan continues running headlong into frantic militarization, oblivious of the bitter lesson taught by the Far Eastern Military Tribunal, it will be put on a court of history again.

Minju Joson

- An article says it is the nature of Korean-style socialism that the Workers' Party of Korea's policies are mapped out for the people and they enjoy happiness under those policies. -0-