Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Tuesday:

- The first enlarged plenary meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was held. (photos accompanied)

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made an important concluding speech at the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea. (photos accompanied)

- The fifth-day sitting of the congress was held. (photos accompanied)

- A press release of the first plenary meeting of the Ninth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea was issued. (photos accompanied)

- Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the president of the United Russia Party, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.

- Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from different countries on the occasion of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- He received flower baskets from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and foreign political parties.

- He sent a birthday spread to a woman centenarian living in Moranbong District, Pyongyang.

- Overseas compatriots organizations, foreign political parties and foreigners sent flower baskets to the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK issued a decree on awarding the title of Socialist Patriotic Forest to exemplary units.

- The charge d'affaires ad interim and the defense attaché of the Russian embassy here gave a reception on the occasion of the Day of Defenders of the Motherland.

- Staff members of the Russian embassy here laid wreaths at the Liberation Tower and the cemetery of the fallen fighters of the Soviet Army.

Rodong Sinmun

- Articles say that different regions and units are putting spurs to the efforts for implementing the Party's policy on regional development.

Minju Joson

- Pak Thae Song, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, sent a congratulatory message to the prime minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. -0-