Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

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

- New school year for 2026 began at universities and other schools across the country and school-opening ceremonies took place.

- A rotating pennant and a citation were awarded to the Chonsong Youth Coal Mine which successfully carried out the national economic plan for 2025.

- University graduates in North Hwanghae Province volunteered for workplaces called by the Party.

- A school-opening ceremony took place at the Korean Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Disability.

- An article discloses the crimes related to forced labor committed by the Japanese imperialists that cannot be rewritten or erased.

Rodong Sinmun

- An enlarged plenary meeting of the Cabinet Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held to carry out the important tasks set forth in the historic policy speech the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly.

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a flower basket and a congratulatory letter from the Iranian ambassador to the DPRK.

- An article says that the revolutionary ideology of President Kim Il Sung has more clearly proved its scientific accuracy through centuries.

Minju Joson

- An editorial calls upon all to dynamically advance towards the implementation of the first-year tasks for the Five-Year Plan, true to the action programme set forth by the Ninth Congress of the WPK. -0-