Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Friday:

- The Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea opened with splendor. (photos accompanied)

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an opening address at the Ninth Congress of the WPK. (photo accompanied)

- The Ninth Congress of the WPK received a congratulatory message from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

- Kim Jong Un received a message of greeting from the president of the United Russia Party on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

- The Central Committee of the Korean Social Democratic Party and the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party sent congratulatory banners to the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

- Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and the General Association of Koreans in China.

- He sent a birthday spread to a woman of wartime merits living in Hwasong District of Pyongyang.

- Women's union members in Huichon City of Jagang Province advanced into worksites of socialist construction.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article deals with the validity of the five-point Party-building line in the new era clarified by the Workers' Party of Korea.

Minju Joson

- An article says it is the unshakable will of the WPK that the Party's policy is mapped out for the people and the people enjoy happiness to their heart's content thanks to it. -0-