Pyongyang, October 9 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Thursday:

- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Party Founding Museum and made a significant speech on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. (photos accompanied)

- Kim Jong Un made a speech during a visit to the Party Founding Museum. (photos accompanied)

- Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and president of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay tribute to President

Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

- Thongloun Sisoulith visited the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK and other places.

- Thongloun Sisoulith left Pyongyang.

- Kim Jong Un received a message of greeting from Thongloun Sisoulith.

- He received a message of greeting from the president of the United Russia Party.

- He received flower baskets from foreign personages.

- Foreign guests visited the Kumsusan Palace of Sun to pay tribute to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

- The participants in the international seminar on the Juche idea laid a flower basket before the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

- Foreign personages, Korean organizations and compatriots in China and the International Social Confederation of Koreans sent flower baskets to the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill.

- The Pyongyang International Figure Skating Festival took place and performances were given by the workers' artistic information team of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and the artistic information team of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea to celebrate the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK.

- A reception was given by the DPRK government for the delegations of organizations for the study of the Juche idea.

- New houses were built at the Songha Sericulture Farm in Songgan County, Jagang Province.

- DPRK weightlifter Song Kuk Hyang set new world records and bagged three gold medals at the 2025 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships.

- A delegation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, a delegation of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, a director of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council and his party, a delegation of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation Conference, a congratulatory group of the International Social Confederation of Koreans and a delegation of Koreans in China arrived here to take part in the celebrations of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK.

Rodong Sinmun

- Rodong Sinmun, Josoninmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi carry a joint editorial on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the WPK.

- The Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly issued a decree on awarding the "Lathe No.26" Model Machine Prize to exemplary units.

- A meeting took place to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the Chollima Steel Complex.

Minju Joson

- Talks between a vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea and the deputy general secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions were held here. -0-