Pyongyang, February 25 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- Sectional study and consultative meetings of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea were held.

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received a congratulatory message from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan.

- He received a message of greeting from the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

- He received flower baskets from Russian political parties.

- He received congratulatory messages and letters from different countries on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of the WPK.

- The 39th Science and Technology Festival of Kim Chaek University of Technology opened.

Rodong Sinmun

- A political essay stresses that our future is immensely rosy as we held Kim Jong Un in high esteem again as the top leader of the WPK.

- Trade union officials from across the country gathered to start their study tour of the revolutionary battle sites in the area of Mt Paektu.

- More than 1 000 women's union members in North Phyongan Province have volunteered for worksites for implementing the Party's policies this year.

Minju Joson

- An article says that many farm villages in the country have been transformed during the eighth term of the Central Committee of the WPK. -0-