Pyongyang, February 13 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a reply message from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

- On the occasion of the 84th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il,

Kim Jong Un received a flower basket from the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He also received a flower basket and a congratulatory letter from the military attaches corps here.

There was a ceremony of awarding Kim Jong Il Youth Honor Prize and Kim Jong Il Children Honor Prize.

The 25th National Youth and Children's Festival of Loyalty opened.

Photo exhibitions are going on in each province (municipality) every day.

The artistic information team of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea and agricultural workers gave a celebration performance.

- Successes are being made in various economic sectors and units and different parts of the country.

- A youth workteam was newly formed at the Ansok Farm in Onchon County of Nampho Municipality and 100-odd young people volunteered to work at the farm.

- The Chinese ambassador to the DPRK hosted a reception on the occasion of the lunar New Year's Day in 2026.

Rodong Sinmun

- The Ministry of Education launched the work to improve the qualifications of teachers at factory colleges across the country.

- An article says that developing countries have directed efforts to training talents.

Minju Joson

- An article calls for advancing forward vigorously to greet the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea as the one of victors and glory.

- The DPRK foreign minister sent a message of greeting to the Iranian foreign minister.

- Another article says that internal discord and decay and ruin are an inescapable fate of capitalism. -0-